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DreamHost is a California-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. Founded in April 1997 by four undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California (who originally used the name NewDream Network and the domain name newdream.net for their company), it now claims to host over 200,000 domain names (as of January 29, 2006) on a network of Linux-based servers based in Los Angeles.
DreamHost is also an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. It used to operate the .la country code 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.
Coupons
It has been known that Dreamhost promotes its packages with special coupons which could be found by simple Google searches. However, these promotional prices only last one year, after in which the company would charge their usual (much more expensive) price if you do not cancel the plan.
Control panel
Another aspect of DreamHost that is subject to both praise and criticism is their control panel, which is a proprietary one devised by their own programmers. Fans like how it gives access to a wide variety of services provided by DreamHost, including allowing the setup of blogs and wikis using software installed on their servers. Critics dislike its "nonstandard" nature, preferring the cPanel software commonly used by many other hosting providers.