Cheap Hosting: Dreamhost $87 discount code
December 15th, 2006Dreamhost have some pretty amazing deals on hosting. With this code FLIBSAVES you can save even more.
The one year prepayment on the Level 1 package just can’t be beat imho, where else could you get a years hosting with 200Gig of space and 2Tb or bandwidth a month (raising month on month (by 16gig/mo for me)) for $32.40 per year?
Level 1: Crazy Domain Insane!
- 200GB storage space, 2TB monthly transfer.
- Monthly payment: $59.90 - $40 = $19.90 (In the first month)
- One-year pre-payment: $119.40 - $87 = $32.40 (This is the package I’m on)
- Two years pre-payment: $190.80 - $87 = $103.80
Level 2: Sweet Dreams
- 300GB storage space, 3TB monthly transfer.
- One-year pre-payment: $239.40 - $87 = $152.40.
- Two years pre-payment: $382.80 - $87 = $295.80.
Level 3: Code Monster
- 400GB storage space, 4TB monthly transfer.
- One-year pre-payment: $479.40 - $87 = $392.40.
- Two years pre-payment: $766.80 - $87 = $679.80.
Level 4: Strictly business
- 500GB storage space, 5TB monthly transfer.
- One-year pre-payment: $959.40 - $87 = $872.40.
- Two years pre-payment: $1534.80 - $87 = $1447.80.
All they ask is that you don’t abuse the service, even allowing the setup of shell accounts on your space on their servers.
My account hasn’t been active long but already I’m impressed, even to the extent of being able to point subdomains of my current domain at their servers without having to move my whole infrastructure over to their services (which is the one reason I have moved away from some of the other providers I’ve used.)
I’ll quickly compare the dreamhost offering to one of the providers I have used in the past: abodehosting.com
This is a fairly standard offering on the current internet, Their bronze package comes with 50 MB web space (which is 4000 times smaller than the dreamhost offering), 1GB of bandwidth (which is 2000 times small than the dreamhost offering), 2 MySql databases (Dreamhost offers unlimited mysql databases) Unlimited Pop3 (Dreamhost say the limit on level 1 is 3000 pop3 addresses, but how many companies even hit 300 let alone 3000? The mailbox space is more important!) and PHP/CGI Support (Dreamhost gives the option of both PHP4 and PHP5, allows the option enablement of extra security features for the virtual host (which I hadn’t seen before) and is pretty secure by default)
In addition, dreamhost also allows the setup of QT streaming from your space, jabber instant messaging and can even support frontpage extensions. All in all, I was very impressed.



