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DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is the web hosting branch of New Dream Network, LLC, founded in April 1996 by four undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and now hosts over 340,000 domain names (23rd-ranked web host in the world) on a network of Linux-based servers. DreamHost is also an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. It used to operate the .la country code top-level domain, the country code for Laos which is being marketed as a domain for Los Angeles. It stopped operating it in February 2006 because it reportedly received very few customers.
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Promotions and criticism Some users of DreamHost services promote them enthusiastically; the fact that they can profit from referrals through an affiliate rewards program (in which all customers are automatically enrolled) plays a part, but many customers are genuine fans of the service. Customers are able to issue "promo codes" giving discounts to those they refer, with the discount coming out of the referral commission they would otherwise have received. However, Dreamhost also has its critics, with some customers quitting and disparaging DreamHost because they experienced difficulties and failed to get them adequately resolved. They have had periodic "growing pains" where an influx of new customers exceeded their ability to provide good service immediately, and some instability was reported, though they usually were back to normal in a few days. One frequent criticism is the lack of direct telephone support; customers must submit support requests in a web form and wait up to 24 hours for a response, although this is in no way unique to DreamHost. Non-censorship policy DreamHost does not censor the content of sites hosted there, unless it is actually illegal (under the laws of the United States, where they are located) or involved in activity such as spamming that violates DreamHost's Acceptable Use Policy. There is, for example, no barrier to "adult" sites, or sites that state extremist views. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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