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www.dreamhost.com · Mass-market hosting
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Employee-owned shared web hosting sold on annual prepay, with per-plan visit caps, unmetered bandwidth and daily automated backups.

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Live sites detected125,384via BuiltWith
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.
Regions4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
Free tierNo — Only free option is a Remixer trial; publishing to a custom domain requires a paid plan.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria comparedSources last checked

DreamHost pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$10.99/month on renewal for Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan source ↗
Pricing model
Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

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.

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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.

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DreamHost's own site (dreamhost.com) self-detects as: hosting — US hosting, Cloud Hosting, Cloud PaaS, Server Location, Dedicated Hosting · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — TLD Redirects, Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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DreamHost pricing

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Free tierNo — Only free option is a Remixer trial; publishing to a custom domain requires a paid plan.
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Kind of free offerNo free offer
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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.
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Pricing modelAnnual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.
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Limits

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Storage (entry plan)25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan
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Sites or apps included25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth
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Monthly visits cap40,000 monthly visits on Web Hosting Launch; 200,000 on Growth
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Included bandwidthListed as Unmetered on every shared plan. DreamHost states $0 overage charges on its VPS plans; no equivalent statement is published for shared.
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Infrastructure

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Regions4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
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Uptime SLA100% uptime guarantee, stated on the shared hosting page with no tier attached.
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  • DreamHost Shared Hosting ↗

    “100% uptime guarantee with multiple datacenter locations, redundant cooling, emergency generators, and constant monitoring, we are able to offer our 100% uptime guarantee.”

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Data

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Backup retentionDaily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept.
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Support

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Support on entry paid planIn-house support staff available 24/7, 365, with no tier to buy.
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  • DreamHost Shared Hosting ↗

    “award-winning support no question is too simple, or too complex for our team of experts. our in-house support staff and service team are here for you 24/7, 365.”

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Compliance

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HIPAAExplicitly not HIPAA compliant; the Security FAQ states DreamHost is not HIPAA compliant.
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GDPR / data residencyCustomer DPA relies on EU Model Clauses for GDPR transfers; DreamHost may transfer and process customer data anywhere it or its sub-processors operate. No contractual residency guarantee; an EU data center (Amsterdam) exists but is not committed in the DPA.
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  • Customer Data Processing Addendum — DreamHost ↗

    “Company may transfer and Process Customer Data anywhere in the world where Company, its Affiliates or its Sub-processors maintain Processing operations. [...] the parties acknowledge that Company shall be deemed to provide adequate protection (within the meaning of Applicable Data Protection Law) for any such Customer Data by complying with the Model Clauses.”

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PCI DSSPCI compliant for Managed VPS, DreamPress and Dedicated servers; shared hosting servers and customer websites are not covered.
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Encryption at restDreamObjects object storage: data uploaded is unencrypted by default and server-side encryption is not supported; client-side or SSE-C only. Scope is DreamObjects; no page states at-rest encryption for shared/VPS/dedicated hosting.
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Customer-managed keysDreamObjects supports SSE-C, which requires you to create your own encryption keys to upload, download and encrypt content; billed as advanced-user only.
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Role-based access controlAccount Privileges grant a second panel user scoped access per privilege (billing, domains, users, databases, hosting plans) and down to a single domain.
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Private networking / VPCDreamCompute US-East 2 only: private networking enabled on request by support; beta, free during the trial period, estimated $5/month per private network.
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  • Private networking overview — DreamHost Knowledge Base ↗

    “Currently, the only way to enable private networking on your US-East 2 account is to contact support and request to enable it. [...] Private networking in US-East 2 is currently free of charge during its beta trial period. [...] The current estimate is $5/month per private network but that pricing may change when the private networking feature is officially released.”

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Dedicated infrastructureDedicated Servers are single-tenant: no other DreamHost customers have access to or share resources on the server, and admin users get full root via sudo.
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DreamHost pricing questions

How much does DreamHost cost?

$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.

Web Hosting — DreamHost · read

How does DreamHost charge?

Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.

Web Hosting — DreamHost · read

Does DreamHost have a free tier?

No.

What types of hosting plans are available? — DreamHost Knowledge Base · read

What uptime does DreamHost guarantee?

100% uptime guarantee, stated on the shared hosting page with no tier attached.

DreamHost Shared Hosting · read

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