As one of 10 most recommended Web Hosting companies by Wordpress.org, Dreamhost is rapidly grown into one of the giant web hosting players on net with over 600,000 domains hosted and excellent technical support team that will support you to solve your problem and it’s 99.9% up time guaranty.

Surely you are likely know that host for over 600,000 domains takes really strong hardware and the DreamHost data centre, consisting of hundreds of multi-CPU servers running Debian Linux, is more than adequate for the task.

Pricing

Their pricing is pretty good but it isn’t that great either. But You won’t get a lot better uptime for less money in my opinion. If DreamHost claims you’re getting more space then any other host just trust that too because it’s true!

Right now Dreamhost offers 4 types shared web hosting plans with various prices level, the main aspect that separates among 4 shared web hosting plans is disk space and bandwidth quotas offered.

You will get unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth at sign up with good price!

Control Panel

Their control panel is the best I’ve seen – very developer orientated, and they used to be so reliable. They always have some new perk going on, and they seem to be a really fun company.

It’s a pretty great control panel that give you the ability toc ontrol all of your sites from and Dreamhost offers you huge of space, bandwith, etc. Their service is friendly, but fortunately it’s not timely.

Scripting Support

All DreamHost plans support the full gamut of server-side scripting languages, including PHP4, PHP5, CGI, Perl, Python and Ruby / Ruby-On-Rails. CRON access is available for those that require scripts to run at regular intervals and custom .htaccess files are available on a domain-by-domain (or sub-domain) basis. DreamHost also provide full shell access (SSH and Telnet) on all accounts.

The DreamHost admin panel also provides for the ‘one-click install’ (and upgrade) of various popular scripts, such as WordPress, Joomla, phpbb, Gallery2 and MediaWiki. The number of applications available through this ‘one-click install’ page is less than that provided by something like Fantastico, but most of the popular packages are represented. Of-course, packages not supported through this page can be installed manually; it just takes a little more work.

Reliability

DreamHost has a reputation for excellent reliability and indeed during the first few months of hosting our test site at DreamHost this proved to be the case. However, over the last few months the DreamHost data centre has experienced a number of problems that resulted in the entire DreamHost network being off-line for extended periods, resulting in our test site being unreachable for hours at a time.

Technical Support

All direct technical support for the DreamHost Level 1 plan is provided through support tickets sent via the admin panel. While the majority of our support queries were answered promptly, usually within 12 hours, some queries took a little longer to elicit a reply, in one case around 36 hours. The actual replies were always friendly and provided the information needed to resolve the issue at hand. DreamHost have said that they are currently hiring more support staff, so I expect the response time for support requests to improve in the future.

Conclusion

Overall, the DreamHost Level 1 plan represents excellent value for money. The starting quota of huge GB of disk-space and huge GB of monthly data transfer/bandwidth should be more than enough for even the busiest web sites.

If you’re interested please visit Dreamhost page!

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