DreamHost
Employee-owned shared web hosting sold on annual prepay, with per-plan visit caps, unmetered bandwidth and daily automated backups.
- mass market
- Not documented
- $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.
- 4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria DreamHost does not publish are not listed.
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] First year at $2.89 /mo SAVE 75% [...] Auto-renews at $10.99 /mo after 1 year.”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
Annual prepay at a discounted first-year rate, renewing at roughly 3.8x. A one-year term is the shortest advertised.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Length of Subscription 1 Year [...] First year at $2.89 /mo [...] Auto-renews at $10.99 /mo after 1 year.”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Limits
Storage (entry plan)
25 GB NVMe SSD on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] 25 GB NVMe SSD storage”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Sites or apps included
25 websites on Web Hosting Launch, the cheapest shared plan; 50 on Growth
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] 25 Websites 40k Monthly Visits 25 GB NVMe SSD storage Unmetered Bandwidth”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Monthly visits cap
40,000 monthly visits on Web Hosting Launch; 200,000 on Growth
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] 40k Monthly Visits [...] Web Hosting Growth [...] 200k Monthly Visits”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] Unmetered Bandwidth”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Infrastructure
Regions
4 data centers: Ashburn (Virginia), Hillsboro (Oregon), Amsterdam and Singapore
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- DreamHost — llms.txt ↗
“**Data Centers**: Ashburn, Virginia; Hillsboro, Oregon; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Singapore”
Read 2026-09-06 · official site
Data
Backup retention
Daily automated backups on every shared plan. DreamHost does not state how many are kept.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Web Hosting — DreamHost ↗
“Web Hosting Launch [...] Daily Automated Backups”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing