You can also add free sub domains to your domain name - you get your first domain name free - and you can add unlimited subdomains! What's more, you can host unlimited domain names in your web hosting account!

Where is this amazing deal?

It's the best web hosting deal I could find - at Dreamhost, and I have looked at a LOT of options.

For $7.95 per month (2 year sign up) you get a free set up and an initial free domain name, then UNLIMITED ADDITIONAL DOMAINS hosted. That is a huge advantage of flexibility, to allow you to put up extra domains when you need. Also you get unlimited sub-domains. Sure, each added domain costs an extra registration fee, but that is only $9.95 per year, which is what most website hosts charge.

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That's worth about 6 months of free hosting to you!

You get a huge 150GB of storage of the server and an "impossibly large" monthly bandwidth throughput of 1.5TB! (These limits may be increasing - check with Dreamhost for their latest deals) Its shared hosting, and if you consistently use these levels I suppose there may be some discussion about dedicated servers, but it sure puts your mind at rest about the possible costs of being hit by a flurry of traffic from Digg or SlashDot.

And those allowances keep growing every month you stay with Dreamhost!

I was a little worried about their customized control panel before signing on. Some people prefer working with what they know, like the widely used c-Panel. But Dreamhost's control panel is just so easy and fast to work with, and you get the usual Wordpress, shopping cart and many more "goodies" with easy installation. MySQL/PHP is standard, along with CGI, PERL, etc., and there are even leading edge options, such as Ruby on Rails. An excellent mail server comes with your site, with a spam filter. All the usual suspects you expect of hosts these days ...

You can register privately without your personal address featuring for all to see in Whois. If it is relevant to your choice of content, Dreamhost is not into censorship, so long as what you do with your site is legal.

There are other options: a shorter or monthly term, more capacity (as if many of us would need any more!), and so forth.

Reliability in my experience has been a "perfect 10" though I believe a fire did briefly disrupt some servers a while back. Dreamhost has a very good reputation, especially when you take into account its very high growth rate.

You don't normally get personal telephone support, but the email technical support is right on the ball in my one brief experience (which turned out to be my problem). And nothing much seems to go wrong anyway, so whats the fuss?

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