Dreamhost Review
Dreamhost was founded in 1997.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers Shared, Wordpress, VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
- USA
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on August 23 2019.
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
Dreamhost Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Dreamhost also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer | Floating IP addresses |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
| GPU instances |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Dreamhost VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41s | 20s | 90s | 5 |
Admin UI Screenshots
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Dreamhost Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $6.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 21
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Dreamhost - gp1_subsonic. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the gp1_subsonic plan
This plan was tested 5 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the gp1_subsonic plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | E |
| Nov 29 2018 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | E |
| Oct 01 2017 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | F |
| Jan 08 2017 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | |
| May 01 2016 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $12.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 2.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 16
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Dreamhost - gp1_supersonic. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the gp1_supersonic plan
This plan was tested 5 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the gp1_supersonic plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 05 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | F |
| Sep 15 2018 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz | D |
| May 20 2018 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz | D |
| Sep 10 2017 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | D |
| Aug 07 2016 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz |
Plan Specifications
| URL | http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/vps/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $15.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 30 |
| Num Cores | 16 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | No |
| Virtualization | Unknown |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Performance Test Results
We conducted 1 different types of tests during the latest trial for Dreamhost - 1GB $15. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 1GB $15 plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB $15 plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 09 2015 | AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4376 HE | |
| Feb 02 2015 | AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4376 HE |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217744568-What-is-DreamCompute-Predictable-Bill |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $24.00 |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 54
Performance Test Results
We conducted 6 different types of tests during the latest trial for Dreamhost - gp1.lightspeed. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the gp1.lightspeed plan
This plan was tested 2 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the gp1.lightspeed plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 27 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz | C |
| Mar 13 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | D |
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