www.dreamhost.com

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General Information: The DreamHost was established in April 1997. Today they have grown to over 700 servers, each with over 50 times the processing power of the single server they started out with and now host over 200,000 websites in a state of the art data center. One thing has never changed during there rise and that is the fact that they have always made it number one priority to deal with every client as a human being and friend, which they claim is the real reason behind there success. They offer a range of shared hosting plans starting from $9.95/mo. They provide a monthly 1000G bandwidth of traffic, quite enough for personal and small business websites (a typical website of the above kind requires only a few GBs per month).

Features: The package has advanced web security which protects your site by enabling the mod_security Apache module on your domain and protects against the most commonly seen web attacks. Form mail which is a CGI script that takes the results of an HTML form and e-mails them directly to an e-mail address of your choice. All Dreamhost plans include support for Frontpage but you must enable this option first via your control panel.

The control panel or web panel as they choose to call it is in fact the pride and joy of Dreamhost. This is where you go to gain access and control every aspect of your Dreamhost account, it is extremely flexible and tailor made with all the unique features that Dreamhost has to offer they have set new standards for ease of use and customization with there web panel. The process is completely automated and tasks such as adding e-mail accounts or new domains is very simple.

Programming: They offer php4 and php5 support. They aslo provide support for CVS Repository, which is rare among hosting companies. CVS, a major version control system, may streamline your development process greatly.

Multiple-Domain Support: They now offer unlimited multiple-domain hosting, which means you could host as many websites as your disk space and bandwidth permit.

Control Panel: DreamHost develops her own control panel for webmasters. Besides the standard links for things like email and domain management, there are areas for customer suggestions, DreamHost newsletters, the DreamHost Site of the Month, DreamHost donations, the unofficial DreamHost directory, as well as a customer discussion area.

Support: Their support team members are knowledgeable and honest. If you open a help ticket, they normally response within half an hour. And with forums, you are always welcomed by their knowledgeable customers and a few of their employees. The Wiki support, which they say is the absolute fastest way to getting answers. In it you can search through there huge library of documentation. Wiki is maintained by both Dreamhost staff and some of there most knowledgeable customers. There are also discussion forums that are used frequently by customers and employees. Technical support team, who will try to answer all e-mails in 24 hrs with most being answered much quicker. To contact the support team simple log into your control panel and click the support tab.

Special Offers: They offer a 97-day Money Back Guarantee, longer than most of the competitors. This may be a symbol of confidence in their services. Besides, if you pay annually, you will get a free domain. Also the rate for a two-year purchase is $7.95/mo.

Conclusion: Dreamhost offer a support system built into a good package for a price that would be hard to beat. Definitely one of the packages to be considered when looking to purchase budget Web hosting.

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