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DreamHost was founded in a college dorm in the late 1990s and has grown to become one of the web’s largest hosting providers. Based in the US, it’s home to more than 1.5m websites, with 400,000 customers in 100 countries.
As well as the Shared Starter hosting plan we’re reviewing here, it offers managed WordPress hosting, dedicated server hosting, and cloud and VPS hosting.
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DreamHost review: What do you get for the money?
DreamHost is unusual in offering monthly hosting plans, as well as annual and three-year deals.
Whichever period you choose, the Shared Starter tier lets you host a single website with unlimited traffic, unlimited storage, a free SSL certificate and, optionally, WordPress installed through the control panel. Email is extra, starting at $1.67 (£1.36) per month but, if you sign up for a year or more, DreamHost bundles a domain of your choice (as long as it’s available) from a range of top-level domains (TLD) that includes .com, .net and .info. You don’t get a free domain with monthly hosting but you can buy a .com for $8.99 (£7.30).
Alternatively, if you already have a domain that you’ve registered elsewhere and don’t want to move, you can point it at your DreamHost web space by updating the nameserver records.
Shared Starter hosting lets you set up five subdomains (there’s no cap if you sign up for Shared Unlimited), and you can add a free LetsEncrypt certificate with a couple of clicks. MySQL is supported, with Shared Starter accounts limited to six databases apiece, of up to 3GB each. There’s no mention of MariaDB.
Those who are comfortable working with the command line, can connect via SSH and, if you have a job you need to run on a regular basis, you can set up Cron using a form on the control panel. It’s a well thought-out process, with the form never getting any more complex than strictly necessary. If you want to run your job hourly, for instance, pick that from the ‘When to run’ menu and it will…
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