35 Responses to “The big 3-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!”

1. Will Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

   These statistics are completely flawed. If you look at the first top 15, most of them are registrars because it counts parked and redirected domains. It really doesn’t say that much about how much DreamHost is growing since DH has cheap registration and unlimited domains on their plans. IMO, DH needs to make their own graph (with or without showing us actual #s) and post it.

2. Unofficial DreamHost Blog Says:
   July 4th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

   DreamHost Now Hosting 300.000+ Domains…

   The latest stats from WebHosting.Info show that DreamHost now hosts more than 300,000 domains and is now the 27th biggest host in the world.
   Back in January I predicted that DreamHost would reach 250,000 domains before 1th of June 2006, but they passed…

3. Jason Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 3:22 am

   I really don’t see how iPowerWeb is so famous. I never even HEARD about them before I was employed with them.

   And then AFTER I was… oh man.

   I guess it’s the same reason as why AOL is so popular. It’s like, people flock to strife.

   I mean, come on, due to management / employment problems, I (yes, I) had the “pleasure” of shutting down our 24 hour support. Our 24 hour tech support line was closed for about, ohh… probably 5 hours or so?

   That’s something I so dearly want to put on my resume ( can’t accent, too lazy ), but that’s not something you want to boast.

4. Matthijs Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 7:44 am

   Congrats :)

   You should update the popup on the website, (when you click on the “Party all night long” image ;)) it says “DreamHost now hosts over 190,000 domains!”

   ;)

   Congrats again =)

5. paul Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 8:53 am

   Wow. When I signed up the plan comparison page said DH had 39,259 domains… .

6. Sara Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 9:53 am

   CONGRATS DREAMHOST! :D
   I am proud to be hosted here :)

7. JD Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 10:02 am

   Congratulations guys! It won’t be long before the big 400,000 domains mark :-)

8. Sara Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 11:51 am

   Please start hosting your own dedicated servers again (not this hosting.com stuff).

   As mentioned in the previous posted, please also update the dedicated server specs (to be comparable to cari.net).

   Sara

9. XXXXX Says:
   July 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm

   I predit dreamhost going down.. The support is too bad.. and takes atleast 48 hrs to resolve a query.. which Su*ks .. on top they have sh*t policies … If they continue the same way IMO.. ppl will cancel their accounts and spread the negative word .

10. snowbutterfly Says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    I’d just like to say that I’m proud to be one of those who may have pushed that mark just a little. I

11. Jacob Says:
    July 5th, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    XXXXX, I’m happy with my hosting, and so is everyone else here. If you don’t like DreamHost, then leave. No one is stopping you.

12. rachael Says:
    July 6th, 2006 at 9:53 am

    yay! dreamhost rocks! i love you guys!

    no, seriously. i really do. *smooches*

    here’s to a million domains hosted!

13. Niky Says:
    July 7th, 2006 at 12:52 am

    today,i find dreamhost take $119.40 form my visa card !

    but i never use your host , why you take my money ?

    i afraid it’s a cheat. I’m the owner , the visa crd last number is
    7051,please! pay my money back ! it’s a large number of money in
    China! please!

    thank you very very much!

14. Lovedeep Wadhwa Says:
    July 7th, 2006 at 1:16 am

    Congrats :-D

    I am using your service from one month and i am in love with dreamhost. Keep up the gud work.

    ————
    And Mr. Nike. I think someone has misused your visa card to buy hosting from dreamhost.

15. ido Says:
    July 7th, 2006 at 4:27 am

    Josh, what kind of nerd are you? Those look like Excel graphs!

    I was expecting gnuplot from you.

    How disappointing… :(

16. Kelly Says:
    July 7th, 2006 at 8:58 am

    What can you expect? Josh also uses Internet Explorer… ;-)

17. Jacob Says:
    July 7th, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    Not only that, but he uses Internet Explorer via wine off of one of the Debian servers.

18. Isabel Wang Says:
    July 8th, 2006 at 10:40 am

    100,000 domains in 22 weeks; that’s pretty awesome! According to Ipwalk (http://www.ipwalk.com/blog/?p=61), it took Microsoft almost exactly as long to sign up 100,000 beta customers for Office Live. It’s sort of an apples to oranges comparison, since your domains don’t all belong to unique customers. Still, I think it does show how very popular your services are. Congratulations!!

19. Justin Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 2:32 pm

    Yea, for every new domain hosted with you guys, you might as well have another downtime.

20. Ian Clifton Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    Call me ignorant, but I hadn’t heard of two of the top three, and ipowerweb has become terrible in the past few years. Hopefully as DH continues to grow, the responsiveness and quality of the services keeps up!

21. CoC Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    It’s all good and well bragging how many domains you have hosted here, but can you keep them all working is the main task.

    I very much doubt it.

22. Andrea Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 6:25 pm

    To Niky: If you haven’t yet submitted a support request, please do so, and we’ll be happy to look into your complaint about the fradulant charge. You left no contact information in your comment. If you don’t have an account with us, go to http://dreamhost.com/contact.cgi and submit a request. We’ll need the first 4 and last 4 digits of the card that was charged. Please do NOT post your reply here, we won’t be able to help you through the blog.

23. Glenn Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 12:13 pm

    I can only wonder why GoDaddy isn’t on the list. Serves ‘em right anywho.

24. Glenn Says:
    July 10th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    I can only wonder why GoDaddy isn’t on the list. Serves ‘em right anywho. I once ran a site with a friend with them. They only allow for one MySQL database, and their control panel is a pain in the ass to deal with, and not only is it impossible to find.

25. fake Says:
    July 11th, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    i dont beleive in such kind of statistics – it`s allways “not real”

26. chip Says:
    July 16th, 2006 at 8:55 am

    you’re #1 in my book. seriously! thanks for being born.

27. Stephen Says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 3:36 am

    You need to update your information on the blog (the tab at the top – dreamhost information.) It still says 200,000

28. Remi Says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 10:31 am

    I honestly don’t see how iPowerWeb can have more domains than you do. I’ve got such a bad experience with them I’d never recommend their services to anyone.

    Dreamhost, though… Big difference, yeah.

29. bob Says:
    July 17th, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    why the fuck are you guys down!!!!!

30. pissed off customer Says:
    July 19th, 2006 at 5:31 am

    why is it the email goes down everytime you guys brag about how well you are doing.

    seriously, stop padding yourselves on the back and fix the god damn servers.

31. Forrest Says:
    July 31st, 2006 at 11:34 am

    I wonder how many of these 300,000 are currently down. Right now only dreamhost.com is up.

32. Andrew Says:
    August 10th, 2006 at 10:21 pm

    That would mean that I count for 0.001% of all that, sweet!

    And over the past few years my sites have been up & down so much I feel like a prostitute… but it doesn’t matter, I’m stickin’ with ya!

33. TBT Blog » Blog Archive » Dreamhost Goes Insane… Again? Says:
    October 3rd, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    [...] In less than a year, Dreamhost has already upgraded their already insane webhosting plans with up to 10 times more webspace and at least 2 times the bandwidth – an upgrade that comes to all existing Dreamhost customers. In other words, Level 1 plans start with 200 Gigs of webdisk and 2 TB of bandwidth. But is this really a good thing? I mean, we’ve already experienced a wackload of problems with Dreamhost that seem to be ongoing. Now, I’m not sure if the previous increase in bandwidth and diskspace was a direct correlation with the network issues that Dreamhost is facing now. One thing that’s for sure is that these “insane” deals are in fact bringing Dreamhost a lot of new customers. According to their blog and webhosting.info, Dreamhost hosts over 300, 000 domains and ranks 24th among the largest webhosts in the world – a nice jump from 200, 000 domains and ranked 39th back in January 2006. Having researched that, there is no doubt increasing bandwidth and diskspace means increased customers. Increased customers means increasing number of shared servers. Increasing shared servers means increasing network problems. Which begs the question again, is this upgrade really a good thing? I remember when some of my sites would take up to 20 seconds to load because of the high resource usage on the database server and there was little that Dreamhost Support could do except to tell me to wait as they tried figuring out the problems. [...]

34. Unofficial DreamHost Blog Says:
    December 28th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    The Big 4-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!…

    This week’s stats from WebHosting.Info shows that DreamHost have reached another milestone. They are now hosting more than 400.000 domains.
    Last January they passed 200,000 domains, in July they reached 300,000 domains and the last 6 months they …

35. DreamHost 2006 - Year in Review Says:
    January 10th, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    [...] Community In 2006 DreamHost could both celebrate 200,000, 300,000 and 400,000 hosted domains and has thereby doubled in size in less than a year. [...]