Like Media Temple's Managed WordPress hosting, Dreamhost has its own Managed WordPress hosting service called DreamPress. Recently, Dreamhost released an updated version, DreamPress 2, which cost only $19.95 per month for one WordPress installation. Compared to the previous DreamPress, the new version is mainly improved in performance.
SSDs equipped. Months ago, Dreamhost's shared hosting has truned to SSDs, now it is DreamPress, with SSDs, files are loaded much faster than regular HDD.
New PHP 5.5 with OpCache. PHP 5.5 with OPCache is simply faster and more compatible with 3rd party WordPress plugins. It's a brand new feautre to DreamPress.
HHVM support. HHVM is Facebook’s faster replacement for PHP. As of WordPress 3.9 and HHVM 2.0, the two work beautifully together. By default, It's not enabled, you are stilling use PHP. HHVM can be enabled in your control panel.
Varnish and Memcached Caching. Varnish sits in front of and is faster than Apache. Varnish improves latency and provides a layer of caching protection for your site during traffic spikes. While Memcached settings which results in faster load times, and fewer requests to the MySQL database. This means you can have more simultaneous visitors on your site.
You have to notice that there is a limit of storage if your wordpress site has a lot of files, especially videos or images, every WordPress installation comes with 30GB of storage, if you exceed the limit, you have to pay extra for more storage space. Storage limit is the only limit for your DreamPress site, you don't need to worry about others such as bandwidth, RAM, MySQL connection, etc. This is the magic and why we like to choose managed WordPress hosting, we don't need to worry about the technology, what we should focus on is the content and drive more visitors to our site.
DreamPress is likewise Media Temple's managed WordPress hosting, here is a list of features of DreamPress:
- Automatic WordPress Installation
- Automatic WordPress Core Updates
- Automatic Daily Backups
- SFTP/FTP access
- 1 dedicated IP
- Full shell (SSH) w/Git available
- $100 Google AdWords credit
For more information about DreamPress, please take a look at its official website and wiki page.
