DreamHost have been hosting their clients' websites since April 1997.The company was launched by four Computer Science undergraduates athmc.edu in Claremont, CA with no capital apart from a single Pentium100 web server, using shared bandwidth on a T1 line that a friend gavethem at no cost.

Now they have already grown to over 1500 servers (each with over 50times the processing power of Destro), a state-of-the-art data center,and a full time staff of 70 at last count. The company hosts over800,000 web sites.

They offer a wide range of features bundled with various service plans.Canned CGI scripts, full CGI access, PHP5, SSH and Telnet, raw logfiles plus analyzed access statistics, unlimited email forwarding,aliasing, auto-responding, vanity domain names, MySQL, e-commerce,plenty of disk space and transfer allowance are available for as littleas $5.95$5.95/month.