DreamHost have been hosting their clients' websites since April 1997. The company was launched by four Computer Science undergraduates at hmc.edu in Claremont, CA with no capital apart from a single Pentium 100 web server, using shared bandwidth on a T1 line that a friend gave them at no cost.

Now they have already grown to over 1500 servers (each with over 50 times 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 over 800,000 web sites.