Best Value Hosting... Ever!

When KittenAuth was launched I was forced to look for an auxiliary host to offload all the images and after a day or so of scouring the internet and finding some places that were obviously dodgier than others, I found DreamHost. At a glance on their website, you might be fooled into thinking

At a glance on their website, you might be fooled into thinking they're absolutely insane believing that people will think their packages and prices are real. I know I certainly had a few doubts before handing over my money. Their package names include: "Crazy Domain Insane!", "Sweet Dreams" and "Code Monster". What made it even more ridiculous were the prices for what you get... Here are the stats for the lowest package (at the time of writing):

So how much for all of this? Well their standard price for this is (if you pay yearly) $119.40 -- an amazing price already -- but wait for this...

Using the code DREAMKITTEN when you purchase, you get $90 off any of the packages, including the cheapest! So that brings the price down to $29.40 per year (or $2.45 a month over 12 months)!!! If you're not sure, you've still got the 97-day money back guarantee and you haven't lost anything!

From what I can tell on their website, the disk space and bandwidth have limited signups, but once you're on the plan, you can keep that usage level forever!

The most important thing about this company is they are real people. They admit when they trip over a power cable and there's 10 minutes of downtime. They even have their own blog! In fact they have 2 but the other is just for service status messages. Their policy is to have fun and not rip everyone off along the way. They recently took on a hosting-review site that was effectively blackmailing them to improve their ratings on the site. Dreamhost replied with this: Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry.

Ok enough of me babbling on about how great they are... Check out their website for yourself. They've got great prices and the experience is even better.

#1 — Author comment /* 3 years, 5 months ago */

We both know that's a lie.

They're very honest about their downtime. If they weren't then I wouldn't be hosting so many important parts of my site with them.

If you want to really see what their uptime is like, check out their service blog where they log all the incidents.

http://dreamhoststatus.com/

Sure 1 of 100 servers might blow up every other but its only out for a few minutes until its failed-over onto new hardware. This sort of things happens with EVERY host. Hardware expodes for no reason.

The fact that they're honest and fast about fixing issues is a good thing.

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Oli Numero Uno

#2 /* 3 years, 5 months ago */

I'm going to agree with Oli on this one. I use Dreamhost and their downtimes are few and far between at a user level.

Their support is pretty decent too.

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Seopher Anonymous User

#3 /* 3 years, 11 months ago */

Excellent podgey, I love you more by the minute :)

With google checkout, I got $10 off along with your awesome $90 off costing me a total of 19 bucks for a years worth of solid hosting. I made sure to let them know who referred me as well, thanks again :)

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joshmo23 Normal User

#4 /* 3 years, 7 months ago */

Hmm, a bit late, but this one really hits home. Dreamhost is wonderful for a static site, but don't be fooled into thinking they're perfect. They had about two months last year where they really were down an average of an hour a day (usually clumped into 3-5 hours at a time). Additionally, since they've offered Ruby on Rails hosting (which convinced me to try them in the first place), their automatic process killer has gone ballistic on anything that uses any amount of memory for more than a few seconds. For static pages, images, and simple PHP, not an issue. For people who really want cheap RoR hosting, they are very much stretching the truth when they say they have great servers for it.

Anyway.... For this site, and others, just offloading bandwidth for static things, DH is an awesome deal.

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Nerdmaster Anonymous User

#5 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */

I recall reading somewhere on the Dreamhost discussion board some time ago that Dreamhost reduced the maximum discount from promo codes to $50. Oli, you might want to check that DREAMKITTEN still does what you say it does.

Cross me and be thagomized.

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Stegosaurus Normal User

#6 /* 17 months, 5 days ago */

Guys, my (major brand label e-commerce) site went down yesterday at dreamhost. I clicked through their panel for phone support and it didnt come all day. I sent messages and messages. A friend even sent a message. She got a reply, explained what was going on, asked them to contact me and they didn't. We were pulling our hair out trying to get a reply from them all day and night. It was an absolutely horrible experience.

Also, they don't give you anything if they break their guaranteed 24 our response. They said they don't have anything to backup the guarantee. Have you ever asked them how they compensate you if they don't get back to you in 24 hours? Go ahead and ask- don't take my word for it! They are not at all as trustworthy or forthcoming as you would like to believe.

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Twilight Zone Anonymous User

#7 /* 7 months, 4 days ago */

The economic climate has popularized a hosting company that actually provides compensation as well as products. This way you don't spend too much on what you need. They're competitive in all aspects, products, price etc... You should check it out
http://powerful5.com/hosting-that-pays.htm

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