Dreamhost

Dreamhost are a small company established since April 1997 who started life with just one single Pentium 200 web server. Today they have grown to over 800 servers, each with over 50 times the processing power of the single server they started out with and now host over 250,000 websites in a state of the art data centre.

Dreamhost offers a wide variety of shared hosting plans ranging from $7.95 to $79.95 a month. They offer discounts for yearly payments and a ton of extras as well as a custom control panel. They support a lot of different audio and video streaming and in a world of all Cpanel and Plesk hosts they are a nice alternative that can deliver a custom solution.

Dreamhost offers some truly unbelievable standard features including 500 GB of web space and 5,000 GB of bandwidth and that is not a typo, 2 full Terabytes! In addition to the standard features Dreamhost offers each an every one of their customers a free domain name and incremental increasing disk space and bandwidth forever. Every week they will upgrade your web hosting account with an extra 1 GB of disk space and 16 GB of bandwidth.

Dreamhost love sales and they know that sales can only be achieved by providing reliable services upon which anybody can trust. Therefore unlike other web hosts who operate out of rented servers they have their own data centers which are networked by redundant connections and equally supported by multiple carriers. Having multiple carriers support their network gives them one big advantage, that is, in an unforeseeable circumstance when one of the carriers goes off service their networks will remain connected through other carrier. DreamHost always keep their bandwidth unsaturated and carry a network capacity which they can use to cope with double load if required.

The control panel offered by Dreamhost makes it easy for customers to have control over their hosting services. This control panel is easy to use. Clients can quickly and easily make changes and customize their hosting services. If a customer is having trouble using the control panel, they can use the knowledgebase to help them through. And if all else fails, the support team at DreamHost is always happy to help.

Dreamhost offers 24 hour email support which is a nice feature. They work hard to respond to emails as quickly as possible. However, they do not guarantee a response in any given amount of time. Each hosting plan also includes a certain number of call-backs available. This feature allows customers to send an email requesting a phone call from a customer support representative. Someone from DreamHost will call you back to answer your questions or assist you with any problems!!!