DreamHost review
The longest refund window in mainstream hosting · Founded 1996 · US
Our verdict
A 97-day money-back window is far longer than anyone else here, which makes trying it close to risk-free. US-only datacenters are the main limitation, and the renewal is nearly four times the intro rate.
$298 over three years one term at the intro rate, then two renewals
- Refund window 97 days
- Uptime SLA 100% uptime guarantee
- Readers rate it No reviews yet
What we liked
- 97-day money-back guarantee, longest on this list
- One of the three hosts WordPress.org recommends
- Monthly billing available without a large penalty
- Clear, uncluttered custom control panel
What we did not
- US datacenters only — poor fit for Indian audiences
- Renewal is about 3.8x the intro rate
- No cPanel, so migrations need more work
- No 24/7 phone support
What it actually costs
checked 28 Jul 2026The advertised price applies to your first term only. Here is the same plan over three years.
For comparison, the cheapest renewal we track is MilesWeb at $2.28/mo — about $105 a year less than DreamHost once the intro term ends. Whether that matters depends on what you get for the difference; read both.
Arithmetic on the published monthly rates above. Real bills vary with term length, currency, region, taxes and whatever promotion is live when you check out.
Specifications
Plans and real pricing
Renewal rates shown where the provider publishes them. Confirm at checkout.
Shared Starter
- Websites1
- Storage50 GB SSD
- BandwidthUnmetered
97-day guarantee
Get Shared Starter →Shared Unlimited
- WebsitesUnlimited
- StorageUnlimited
- BandwidthUnmetered
Email included
Get Shared Unlimited →VPS Stack 4
- Websites4 GB RAM
- Storage75 GB NVMe SSD
- BandwidthUnmetered
Intro rate covers the first 3 months, then $15.99 — source: dreamhost.com/hosting/vps
Get VPS Stack 4 →Full review
Who it is for
Someone serving a US or European audience who wants a long, genuinely usable trial period before committing.
The refund window is the feature
97 days is roughly three times the usual 30. That converts "will this be fast enough?" from a gamble into something you can actually test with your own site.
The datacenter problem
US-only. If your visitors are in India, the latency will show and no amount of caching fully hides it.
Reader reviews
Nobody has reviewed DreamHost here yet
We do not write customer reviews ourselves, so this stays empty until real customers fill it. If you have hosted with DreamHost, yours would be the most useful thing on this page.
- Which plan, and how long
- Resource limits matter more than brand name
- One thing that went right
- Be specific — "support was good" helps nobody
- One thing that went wrong
- The most valuable line in any review
- What you paid at renewal
- The figure we cannot verify without you
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