Get Free Hosting at Dream Host For Your WordPress

Written by Pavan Kumar on February 25, 2009

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Yes, you are hearing it right. DreamHost provided very cheap web hosting on different occasions like New Year and Valentine’s day. And now, they are offering free hosting. Here are the details.

Dreamhost has recently started free web hosting for web applications – DreamHost Apps. This is currently under beta and this free service will be charged $50 per year after they come out of beta. BUT, if you are going to sign up as beta tester for them, you will get LIFETIME free account there.

You can setup different web softwares like WordPress, Drupal, ZenPhoto, phpBB, MediaWiki and Google Applications like calender, iGoogle, Google Docs and Google Sites.

free web hosting

Advantages:

1. You will get hosting at DreamHost, which is a trusted and reliable host. Though people say, its service is little bad these days, my friends who are using the same host since many days have no problems associated with DH.

2. No hidden fees. By signing you would lose only some 5 minutes of your life and no money. They don’t even need your credit card details to sign up.

3. You will get an account forever: They promise you, and I believe they are true. Beta testers will get lifetime account associated.

4. Support your domains: You can use their subdomain (subdomain.dreamhosters.com) or your own domain or you can also register for a new domain with them.

5. Fast and fully automatic application installers. You don’t need to bother anything related with installation of web applications, all will be done automatically.

Disadvantages:

1. You will not get FTP and SSH access.

2. No technical support for you free guys :(

3. You cannot install these apps directly into your domain root. Like it is not possible to have your wordpress installation on something.com, but you can do it on blog.something.com.

Note: The blog entry says, it needs invitation codes, but it did not ask for any such codes while registration. The total availability of accounts is 10,000 and currently only 6,000+ accounts left. Grab it quick.

       

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11 Readers responded to this post

Its a good offer to those who are just starting to blog. I just wonder why anyone should join them. Having a blog at wordpress.com will be as good as this?

By Raju on February 25th, 2009 at 1:18 am    

@Raju

Remember friend, wordpress.com won’t allow you to place your ads. Blogger does not have great flexibility and features as wordpress.

By Pavan Kumar on February 25th, 2009 at 1:26 am    

signup is not at all working! showed me an error

By Hariharakumar on February 25th, 2009 at 1:49 am    

Dude its difficult without FTP. But still worth at Dreamhost.

Thanks for sharing the good news.

By TechZoomIn on February 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am    

It’s always a better option than wordpress.com hosting. But still it has lots of disadvs no custom plugins or themes.I think they should gather opinion from the common users about the plugins and themes they want and put them.
One error in you post, DApps support installing WordPress in your root directory. I myself has checked that. Initially it did’t supported that. Many of us complained about that in the forum and some guys from Dreamhost checked and corrected that

By Nikhil on February 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm    

@Pavan Kumar –
Yes, that is true. But without having a handle to the plugins/themes, WordPress will be just as good or as bad as Blogger.

By Raju on February 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pm    

@Nikhil

This is a new news for me…. but a good news too…

By Pavan Kumar on February 26th, 2009 at 9:29 pm    

Nice hosting..I just signed up and it is good. It give ftp access, which is very helpful. It use its own light panel. I just up a photo-album there. Look nice and also gmail application. Till now it is good. You can use ur own domain later. Most good thing is I don’t need to put any ad code in my site.

By Arafat on February 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pm    

@Arafat

Wow, now I am getting really crazy. Are they offering ftp too? Its really a very good option then. I should go for it :) Thanks for the update.

By Pavan Kumar on February 27th, 2009 at 12:29 am    

Hey, do you know if I can get a free site from them and then upgrade later? I don’t have a domain but I want to take advantage of this great offer. Also, can I use the domain I get from Hyperwebenable?

By Simon on March 8th, 2009 at 6:43 pm    

@Simon

I think you can make it for a subdomain. Other options I can provide you is to go with .co.cc type domain. Though I am not sure about this, I hope it is possible.

Regarding hyperwebenable, you can’t make use of it that way. That can be used only on their servers.

By Pavan Kumar on March 8th, 2009 at 10:56 pm    
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