Dreamhost is one of the most well-known hosting companies around the world. And it happens to be the one where this website is hosted (along with all ideias3 websites).
When I subscribed for the hosting the plan was a bit different than now. I pay about $120 a year and the storage started at 200GB and is increasing 1GB per week. Looks like now for the same price you get 500GB (with weekly increases of 2GB). Pretty neat, hein?
Well, it couldn’t be that good. I must admit the price is really good, but getting an account at Dreamhost is like playing the roulette. Your account can be created in one of their multiple servers. There are a lot of bad reviews and a lot of good ones. Since it’s shared hosted, it all depends on your server neighborhood.
I have had a great experience in Dreamhost. I never worried about the storage limit as I did in other hosts I’ve been client in the past. And there are a few goodies that make me love them:
- Great Panel Control
- Unlimited Databases, Domains, Email accounts, unlimited EVERYTHING! (but for space and bandwidth)
- SVN server with a really simple of setting up repos!
- Jabber server (so I can have a jabber me@alcidesfonseca.com)
- One-Click install for most popular opensource applications (Wordpress…)
- Supports Ruby on Rails (We have a few RoR projects running) and now they supports mod_rails!
- Doesn’t support Django… But simple websites run pretty fine \o/ (like this one!)
- Best interface for managing domain registrations I’ve seen so far!
To sum up: they’re the perfect hosting if you want to host some PHP or small RoR/Django websites, your email, your svn repos and do some backups! If you want to have a high up-time and cpu/memory consuming website, you should go for a VPS (like I did with Slicehost).