DreamPress, Should I?
Dreamhost just announced their new high-revving WordPress hosting service called DreamPress. Sounds like a “dream” come true if you’ve been maintaining your own WordPress install and balancing its resources and performance against cost. DreamPress seems to hit the right price point but initially, the cost is per site. I wish it were for several sites, well, at least more than one at the same price.
But I am confused about the overall pricing. I joined Dreamhost ages ago using a special promotion. Over the years, I changed to VPS, upped my server’s memory, added CloudFlare, and more. Most of the changes incurred additional costs which I think I could dump if I signed up for DreamPress. But I’m not certain if that’s “allowed” for the DreamPress pricing.
Anyways, DreamPress is an attractive option if a few more concessions are made. I gotta keep watching this…
July 3, 2013 @ 2:51 am
Have you made any decision about Dream press yet? I’m on shared hosting (Ipage) and have Cloudflare Pro with W3 Total Cache installed and well tuned. What I’m running up against is the MYSQL server limits with Woo Commerce and several plug ins. Dreampress looks attractive especially if it plays nicely with Cloudflare. I tried ZippyKids and it was slower than shared hosting with above configurations but it turned out to be significantly slower and support was horrible. Let me know if you’ve given Dreampress a try yet? My site is heavy on photos: http://www.localwaters.us Any opinions are welcome as to if my site would benefit Thanks! Mark
July 4, 2013 @ 6:32 am
Mark, no sorry, I haven’t moved to DreamPress yet. I’m still hesitant since there are some details missing. One of them is compatibility with CloudFlare. I’m sure DreamPress will be much better than any shared hosting since you’ll get your own VPS for both web and database. Since the cost is per site, I don’t think I’ll save that much since I host more than one site with DreamHost.