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Dreamhost is an Employee Owned Company

Believe it or not, Dreamhost as large as it is is actually an employee owned company. A small tight-knit group of owners without investors or any kind of major corporation behind the scenes. A striking contrast from competitors such as Network Solutions, GoDaddy, and 1&1 Hosting. Rather than being a major company focused on what other major companies focus on, things such as ROI and high level monitization, Dreamhost is a small group of nerds who are passionate about providing high level web hosting. An oddity in today's web hosting industry.

Some History Behind Dreamhost

Dreamhost started out back in April of 1997 in Claremont, California. Like many hosting companies at the time, Dreamhost started out small with a single Pentium 100 web server using shared bandwidth on a T1 line. Boy have things changed since then. Compare that to now. Dreamhost currently hosts over 1,500 physical servers. And each of those servers has over 50 times the processing power as their first server back in 1997.

Dreamhost has a state of the art data center with a full-time staff of 70 employees all with different roles and responsibilities. Dreamhost at last count is hosting over 800,000 websites within their network. A majority of which are happy and satisfied customers. Just like it's days of origin back in 1997, Dreamhost continues to be a privately held company by a small group of founders. This keeps the Dreamhost grounded, constantly focused on it's current customer base.

Dreamhost Continues To Expand Services/Features

In order to continue it's dominance amongst competitors, Dreamhost continues to expand it's services and features. Currently with Dreamhost these are just some of the features that are given to all customers:

  • Canned CGI Scripts
  • Full CGI Access
  • PHP 5
  • SSH & Telnet
  • Raw log files
  • Unlimited Email Forwarding
  • Aliasing
  • Auto-forwarding
  • Vanity domain names
  • MySQL
  • E-Commerce
  • Only $8.95 per month

And many many more. Despite all the features however, the major reason behind Dreamhost customers praises is the high level of Customer Service Dreamhost provides. Every email, every phone call, every support ticket request, is answered with the upmost priority and care from Dreamhost technical support. Customer Service is the reason why hardly any customers ever leave Dreamhost for anyone else.