DreamHost
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| Type | Private company |
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| Founded | Claremont, California 1996 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Key people | Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez, Sage Weil |
| Industry | Domain Registrar, Web hosting service |
| Products | Web services |
| Website | http://www.dreamhost.com |
DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is the web hosting branch of New Dream Network, LLC, founded in April 1996 by four undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and now hosts over 470,000 domain names (19th-ranked[1] web host in the world, 14th-ranked[2] web host in the United States) on a network of Linux-based servers.
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[edit] Registrar
DreamHost is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. It used to operate the .la country code top-level domain, the country code for Laos which is being marketed as a domain for Los Angeles. It stopped operating it in February 2006 because it reportedly received very few customers.[3]
[edit] Control Panel
DreamHost has deployed a proprietary control panel, devised by their own programmers. It gives access to most services provided by DreamHost, including 1-click setup of blogs and wikis using software installed on their servers, and an integrated billing system. A new version of the panel was deployed on March 1, 2007.[4]
[edit] Non-censorship policy
DreamHost does not censor the content of sites hosted there, unless it is actually illegal (under the laws of the United States, where they are located) or involved in activity such as spamming that violates DreamHost's Acceptable Use Policy.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Webhosting.info World ranking as of March 28, 2007
- ^ Webhosting.info US ranking as of March 28, 2007
- ^ DreamHost Newsletter, February 2006
- ^ DreamHost Blog: Oh yeah...
- ^ DreamHost TOS: Lawful Purpose Retrieved February 18, 2007
[edit] External links
- DreamHost - official site
- DreamHost Blog - staffer blog
- DreamHost Wiki - knowledgebase, maintained by DreamHost staff and customers
- DreamHost Discussion Forum - support and assistance for DreamHost customers, by DreamHost customers
- DreamHost Status Blog - information about downtimes, upgrades, new features, and other changes
- Unofficial DreamHost Blog
