# DreamHost

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/dreamhost/

Employee-owned shared web hosting sold on annual prepay, with per-plan visit caps, unmetered bandwidth and daily automated backups.

## Who it suits

Running many small sites on one cheap plan — 25 websites and 40,000 visits at the entry tier, where most shared hosts give you one or three. Employee-owned, with no private-equity parent behind the renewal pricing.

Consider something else if The advertised price is a first-year rate that renews at roughly 3.8x. Only four data centres exist, all US, Amsterdam or Singapore, so there is no option closer to other regions.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Entry paid plan: $10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan. The advertised $2.89 is a first-year rate on an annual prepay. ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised. ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)
- Sites or apps included: 25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)
- Monthly visits cap: 40,000 monthly visits on Web Hosting Launch; 200,000 on Growth ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)
- Included bandwidth: Listed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared. ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)

### Infrastructure

- Regions: 4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/llms.txt), read 2026-09-06)

### Data

- Backup retention: Daily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept. ([source](https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/web-hosting/), read 2026-09-06)

## Compared with

- [DreamHost vs Hostinger](https://inetgeek.com/compare/hostinger-vs-dreamhost/)
- [DreamHost vs SiteGround](https://inetgeek.com/compare/siteground-vs-dreamhost/)