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Sure, but it also took them 7 hours to email their own customers on the email infrastructure run by DreamHost themselves. Since they run the IMAP and SMTP servers, seems like th…
by xmddmx · Oct 26, 2026
Porkbun has been fine, used dreamhost for years prior
by dieselgate · Oct 26, 2026
This has been a real annoyance for me lately since I run a lot of my music production business out of my website lexwhite.net hosted on Dreamhost and Dreamhost VPS. I love and t…
by lexwhite · Oct 26, 2026
Super displeased with DreamHost's handling of this. I have multiple master accounts. One of them got the email around 12pm today (over 48 hours after the incident started) sayin…
by xmddmx · Oct 26, 2026
Dreamhost is no longer the hosting company that I originally signed up for. I'm also looking for a different host. I might have been willing to stick it out, but their panel…
by rationalist · Oct 26, 2026
> I migrated all my stuff from dreamhost about 5 years ago May I ask to where you migrated?
by mistersquid · Oct 25, 2026
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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is owned by New Dream Network, LLC, founded in 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and registered in 1997 by Michael Rodriguez. DreamHost began hosting customers' sites in 1997. In May 2012, DreamHost spun off Inktank. Inktank is a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system. In November 2014, DreamHost spun off Akanda, an open source network virtualization project. As of February 2016, Dreamhost employs about 200 people and has close to 400,000 customers. Read more on Wikipedia