Available Bluehost And Dreamhost Plans

Dreamhost

• WordPress basic
• DreamPress 
• VPS WordPress 
• Hosting 
• VPS

Bluehost

• WordPress hosting
• Cloud hosting 
• Woocommerce hosting 
• Websites and online stores hosting 
• VPS hosting 
• Dedicated hosting 

For this comparison we will use the most basic plan of both providers as a reference ()

Bluehost vs DreamHost Email hosting

A feature against Dreamhost is that it does not include the email feature, that is why to add them you must pay an extra $1.67 per month. On the other hand, Bluehost includes a 3-month trial version, after that you will have to pay $2.49 per month. 

Free domain name

Bluehost offers a coupon to redeem for a free domain for one year, the coupon is valid for 90 days. On the other hand, Dreamhost offers a free domain registration for one year, the same as Bluehost the validity to acquire the domain is during the first 3 months after contracting the plan. 

SSL

Both providers offer SSL certificates in their most basic plans. In the case of Bluehost offers only the first year of the certificate for free. 

Bluehost vs DreamHost Support

Dreamhost offers 24/7 chat support which is very convenient for resolving any questions, as well as email support.  

Bluehost offers 24/7 chat and phone support, which can sometimes be more convenient to resolve questions quickly. 

Bluehost vs DreamHost bandwidth and storage

We believe that both providers offer from their base plan a decent amount of storage and bandwidth, as both providers do not measure bandwidth. 

In the case of storage, Dreamhost offers 50gb of storage in its most basic plan.  

While on the other hand, bluehost offers 10GB, although thinking that it will be used for a not very big or complex website, the truth is that 10GB is more than enough. Of course, in the case of storage, more is better, which is why in this case Dreamhost has the advantage.

Bluehost vs DreamHost price

Both providers offer plans cheap enough to take into account when choosing a hosting for your website. Blue host starts from $2.95/month, however, the renewal goes up to $11.99.  

On the other hand, DreamHost starts from $2.59/month and the renewal goes up to $5.99/month.  

Dreamhost offers monthly, annual and 3-year plans, while Bluehost only offers annual and 3-year plans. 

Summary

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In this Dreamhost WordPress tutorial, we will show you how to install WordPress using the Dreamhost control panel.

First of all, we must clarify that it is not necessary to have a dreampress plan on dreamhost to install WordPress. In our case we have the shared unlimited plan and with that plan we can manage our WordPress websites without any problem. 

Creating a website on Dreamhost 

• The first thing we must do is to log in to our DreamoHst control panel.  
• Then we must select the option “Websites” > “Manage Websites”

• Now from this screen, we must click on the button with the text “Add a website”.

• Now we must select the domain where we will host our website. 
  • The first option we have is to select a domain, either we have a domain with dreamhost or a domain with some other provider.
  • The second option is to create a subdomain.  
  • And the third option is to register a new domain. 
• For this example, we will register a test subdomain

• For this example, we will register a test subdomain. 

• The next step is to select the hosting, we will select the shared unlimited option. 

• After that, we will click on the “Configure web site” button, this will start the process of creating the web site. 

• Once the website creation process is completed, we can do the WordPress installation. 

Installing WordPress on Dreamhost 

• First, we must click on the “Manage” button. 

• When we do this, we will be shown a screen with all the available actions for our website.   
• Now we must select the “install” option within the WordPress section. 

• When we click on install, we will be shown a screen with some options to help us with the installation of WordPress. In this case we will select the option of none, since we want to do a clean installation. Subsequently, we click on “next”. 

• Now we are suggested to install some plugins, the two plugins shown below we recommend to install. 

• Finally, click on the install button and the wordpress installation will start. 

• Once WordPress is installed on our website we can manage it from the dreamhost panel, now inside the admin options we can find a WordPress icon.

• Clicking on the WordPress icon will take us to the WordPress installation we have just created.

• Finally, we recommend to create a new password and store it in a safe place. 

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Normally when we are building a website we face challenges, whether it is visual design, software architectural design or database design; all these issues are usually challenging. Even so, it is important to know that there are problems that arise at the time of production, whether we have a problem with the security certificate, with nameservers to point to our domain, etc.. This is where we have to talk about Dreamhost support.

In this article we explore a little more about the support that we mentioned in another post we did.

What is the waiting time for the dreamhost support?

This is one of the main points when talking about the technical support of any service, how many of us have not faced ridiculous waiting times to resolve our doubts? This is a big problem when we want to solve a problem within our website, fortunately Dreamhost support usually responds very quickly in this regard, approximately usually takes to respond on average 5-15 minutes which seems to us a quite acceptable waiting time. Needless to say that this is the average that we usually perceive, this time will depend on how busy the support area is, as this time could be extended a few minutes more. 

By what channels is dreamhost support provided?

• Email: first of all, Dreamhost support usually responds within the first 24 hours after you make the ticket, I recommend this type of response for when you have questions that are not urgent, and you can take your time.  
• Chat: this is usually one of the fastest ways to get an answer from Dreamhost support since as we mentioned before, this usually takes no more than 15 minutes. It is important to mention that through the chat we can also attach files, for example, we can attach screenshots to better explain our problem.  
• Phone: finally, we have the option by phone, particularly we have not used this method, because the chat communication has proved to be very efficient, and we have not been in the need to communicate by phone. 

What issues have they solved for us?

• Domains
  • Registration of domains: first of all, they answered in a very good way all the questions we had about the registration of a .us domain.
  • Domain deletion: We made the request to Dreamhost support to delete all the domain information, which in a very attentive manner we attended the request. Finally, after a few minutes and after explaining the situation, the domain deletion was already in process.  
• SSL: Dreamhost offers the Let’s Encrypt service to add the security certificate to the websites hosted in their service, these security certificates are added manually from the control panel and are renewed automatically every 3 months, which is actually quite useful, because we don’t have to worry about renewing the certificates. However, there are times when the renewal is not done correctly and does not let us do the renewal manually, in this case, dreamhost support was very attentive and solved the problem immediately. Even so, we believe that there should not be this problem on the part of dreamhost and it could be seen as a negative point on the part of dreamhost.
• Change the php version: we had a problem with a plugin and normally the php versions are automatically updated by dreamhost, and this is a good thing, but there are some times when this can cause compatibility problems. First, we identified the plugin, later we identified the problem and finally we contacted dreamhost to revert to a previous version of PHP.
• Email: They have solved our doubts about email delivery, smtp client configuration, etc.

Cons

In general we have had very good experiences with dreamhost support, only that there have been times when we have had to solve the problem ourselves. Because of this we can’t say that it is a 10/10 service, but we can say for sure that it is a very good and competent service.

Conclusion  

To summarize, we can say that the dreamhost support service is very competent in terms of problem solving.

Although there have been some situations where we have had to solve the problem ourselves, on these occasions they have always been very attentive and friendly when communicating with us. Subsequently, we believe they have very efficient response times, they have even solved problems for us late at night, which we think is a great plus to the service.

In the same way, the communication channels they have are more than enough to approach them and express our concerns. Finally, we can say that dreamhost support is good enough to recommend it. Also, they can also solve problems in English and Spanish. In addition, they have a FAQ section that is very useful to solve problems.

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DreamHost is a Website Hosting Service provider. Are you looking for a place to host your new website? DreamHost might be the answer. When we’re on the internet, we often wonder, “Where can I host my website?” Well, a quick Google search will reveal the main hosting service providers, and without a doubt, DreamHost is on that list, and maybe you are wondering if Dreamhost Website Hosting Services are good.

On this occasion, we are going to talk about our experience with DreamHost. We have been working with them for almost 5 years, so we believe we have enough time to give an informed opinion on their hosting services. 

DreamHost Website Hosting Services – Basic 

For a better organization, the main DreamHost Website Hosting plans are listed down below: 

1. Shared: this is the cheapest plan and if you are thinking about a simple hosting service for your website or for your WordPress website, I think this is your best option.
   • It offers WordPress installation wizard.
   • 97 days money back guarantee.
   • Free domain included  
   • Offers unlimited traffic  
   • Free SSL  
   • You can only host one website  
   • You can add email for $1.67 USD per month  
   • SSD Storage  
   • Offers 3-year, 1 year and monthly plans.  
   • Pricing starts at $2.59 USD per month (It is worth mentioning that the price only applies to new accounts). 
2. Shared unlimited (this is the plan that Lyon Agency works with): Personally, it has been more than enough for us and for our customers, as it offers the functionality and infrastructure necessary to maintain the websites we work with, so we believe this is a good option
   • Offers WordPress installation wizard  
   • 97 days money back guarantee.  
   • Free domain included  
   • Offers unlimited traffic  
   • Offers unlimited websites  
   • Free SSL  
   • Unlimited email creation  
   • SSD storage  
   • Offers 3-year, 1 year and monthly plans.  
   • The price starts at 3.95 USD per month (It is worth mentioning that the price only applies to new accounts).

DreamHost Website Hosting Services – Specialized

1. DreamPress. DreamPress plans are designed especially for WordPress websites, offering development, performance and security tools that are quite interesting for your new WordPress site. 
   • 1 website  
   • Free domain  
   • 100k visitors per month 
   • Unlimited bandwidth  
   • 30 GB SSD storage  
   • WordPress installer  
   • SSL included  
   • Unlimited emails  
   • 24/7 support  
   • WP site builder  
   • Manual backups  
   • 2 weeks of backups  
   • NGIX Hosting  
   • Staging in 1 click  
   • Price from 16.95 per month 
2.  DreamPress Plus: Offers the same as its lower plan, only with some upgrades 
   • 300k monthly visitors  
   • 60 GB SSD storage  
   • Unlimited CDN  
   • Price starting at 24.95 per month 
3. DreamPress Pro: As with the previous versions, there are some improvements. 
   • 1 Million visitors per month  
   • 120 GB of storage  
   • 4 weeks of backups  
   • Price starting at 71.95 per month 

Virtual Private Servers. These plans are for those who need a more specialized server, those who are more knowledgeable about server administration or for those who need access to all server resources to deploy specialized applications.

1. VPS Basic
   • From $10 USD per month  
   • 1 GB of RAM  
   • 30 GB SSD storage  
   • Unlimited websites  
   • Unlimited traffic  
   • Free SSL certificate  
   • Unlimited email accounts 
2. VPS Business: Offers the same as its lower plan, only with some upgrades 
   • From 20 USD per month  
   • 2 GB RAM  
   • 60 GB SSD storage   
3. Professional VPS: Offers the same as its lower plan, only with some upgrades
   • From 40 USD per month   
   • 4 GB RAM  
   • 120 GB SSD storage  
4. Enterprise VPS: Offers the same as its lower plan, only with some upgrades
   • From 80 USD per month  
   • 8 GB of RAM 
   • 240 GB SSD storage

Our experience with DreamHost support 

Now we will tell you a little about our experience with technical support, for now we will only mention in a very summarized way our experience, because we believe that in a future article we will touch this topic in a deeper way. 

It is inevitable that during the development process there are unforeseen events, we always try to solve the problems that arise on our own, but when the problem escalates and we need the help of support without a doubt DreamHost’s technical support has been up to the task.   

They offer support in English and Spanish, the support agents know how to do their job very well and most of the time they always end up solving the problem, plus the waiting time in the chat does not usually take more than 15 minutes. It is very nice to know that you will solve the problem quickly and effectively, because the support is done directly from a chat, for which you do not have to choose a tangle of options to talk to a real person. They also offer the option to talk on the phone with a support agent, but in this case, it is necessary to communicate in English. 

So, to give you an idea of how the support is, we show you the following screenshot:

Our thoughts about dreamhost website hosting services

So, Lyon Agency as an agency in which in addition to logo design and branding design, we offer web development services, we have had the opportunity to work with different hosting providers and in fact we have been working for about 5 years with DreamHost, that’s why we can say that DreamHost Website Hosting Services have exceeded expectations. Also the control panel is very easy to operate. 

In summary, we believe that Dreamhost website hosting services are more than suitable to be taken into consideration if you want to take your website to the internet, as it has several plans that go from the simplest and cheapest, to much more complete plans if you want to deploy a more complex application. In addition, their support area is very capable to solve any inconvenience.

Additionally we invite you to review all their hosting plans in case they have changed since we wrote this article, you can check the dreamhost plans.
Finally, we know that each project is different, as well as the needs and concerns of us developers usually change, that is why we invite you to also review other options and decide which is the one that best suits your needs and we hope this article has been helpful.

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