Dreamhost Review

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Last updated on May 1 2016.

Feature	Value	Comment
Hourly Billing	Yes
DDOS Protection	Yes	https://www.dreamhost.com/press/web-and-cloud-hosting-provider-dreamhost-selects-arbor-networks-peakflowr-sp-platform-for-infrastructure-visibility-and-security/
Backups	No	No backup system available.
Control Panel	Builtin
SSH Keys Setup	Yes
Total Number of Datacenters	4
Number of Datacenter Continents	1
Monitoring Charts	No
Admin REST API	Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console	Yes
Mobile Friendly UI	No
Accepted Forms of Payment	Credit cards, Paypal, Check
Hidden CPU Model	No
Affiliate Program	Yes

In VpsBenchmark's opinion

Feature	Value	Comment
UI Friendliness		Many UI options have no explanation and their meaning is very mysterious. Lack of monitoring charts.
Quality of Service		Dreamhost website and DreamCompute admin UI are dissociated. Account management and billing on one side, VPS management on the other. Separate credentials needed. Special account 'dhc-user' created on every VPS. Pricing is unclear. What does "Max Monthly Price" mean? Can it be less? Pricing is not shown when creating an instance. Datacenter for instance unknown. Only one availability zone offered.

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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 Ips
Teams	Datastores	Serverless	Ddos Protection

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Dreamhost Plans

Plan Specifications

Url	http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/vps/
Cost Per Month	$15.0
Hourly Billing	false
Memory Gb	1.0
Disk Gb	30
Data Transfer Gb	10000
Num Cores	16
Virtualization	Unknown
Burstable	No

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Dreamhost - 1GB $15. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

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	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Feb 09 2015	58ms	116ms	5ms
Feb 02 2015	48ms	95ms	5ms

Plan Specifications

Url	https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/
Cost Per Month	$6.0
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	1.0
Disk Gb	80
Data Transfer Gb	3000
Num Cores	1
Virtualization	KVM
Burstable	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.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
E	F	E	F	-

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Dreamhost - gp1_subsonic. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

This plan was tested 3 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	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Oct 01 2017	122ms	187ms	39ms
Jan 08 2017	111ms	180ms	33ms
May 01 2016	47ms	85ms	15ms

Plan Specifications

Url	https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/
Cost Per Month	$12.0
Hourly Billing	true
Memory Gb	2.0
Disk Gb	80
Data Transfer Gb	10000
Num Cores	1
Virtualization	KVM
Burstable	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.

How are grades calculated?

Web Performance	Raw CPU Power	Performance Stability	Disk IO Performance	Network Performance
C	F	B	C	E

Performance Test Results

We conducted 5 different types of tests for Dreamhost - gp1_supersonic. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.

Web Test	Sysbench Test	Remote Timing Test	Endurance Test	Network Transfers
Review	Review	Review	Review	Review
Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare	Compare

Web Test Results

This plan was tested 4 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	Avg response time	P95 response time	Avg DB time
Sep 15 2018	71ms	141ms	6ms
May 20 2018	73ms	143ms	7ms
Sep 10 2017	67ms	130ms	9ms
Aug 07 2016	63ms	131ms	6ms

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