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DreamHost is a world famous and reputed shared web hosting company which serves quality web hosting at very affordable price. They provides good CPU system resources and the sites hosted on their servers are always be healthy while we are note sure so much regarding 1and1.com web hosting and in other words 1and1 does not offer reliable web hosting. Though the web hosting offered by 1and1 is very cheap and they roll out very attractive offers but there are many dangerous facts behind their offers.

DreamHost and 1and1 both companies gives modified fancy control panel for their hosting clients but the DreamHost hosting control panel is far far better than 1and1 buggy control panel and it is difficult to navigate 1and1 hosting control panel options. 1and1 control panel is very primitive type of incomplete hosting control panel and sometime it becomes intolerable. On the other hand you can find all essential options in the DreamHost hosting control panel.

DreamHost is first class in customer support and they help their clients immediately using instant Live Chat as well as Help ticket system. On the other hand 1and1 is become worst in case of customer support. There is no Live Chat feature and clients are helpless if they need immediate assistance. Their email support is also very slow and sometime they are unable to solve their issue and ask you to call them. DreamHost is awesome in case of customer support.

1and1 and DreamHost Uptime Comparison

DreamHost is great in case of server uptime and their hosted websites are up almost every time. We have reviewed 1and1 shared hosting uptime and find that the uptime reports are not so perfect and there are many downtimes. ( though they promise 100% uptime suing their Dual servers)


Both companies are good in server response time and servers are responsive. Websites loads faster on both hosting companies.

1and1 DreamHost System resources ( CPU/RAM etc) Comparison

DreamHost is the king if we talk about system resources in shared hosting services. DreamHost shared servers run on 16 to 32GB system memory and they use quad core processors. 1and1 says that offer high speed servers and provides good resources but we had never experience quality while trying their services.

1and1 and DreamHost Pricing Comparison ( Which is cheap Hosting)

If we exclude quality then undoubtedly 1and1 is the cheaper than DreamHost and you can get any of their hosting plan with some month free hosting. If we consider quality then DreamHost is affordable and you will not pay more than costs. 1and1 unlimited plan comes with 3 month free hosting and then you have to pay $7/month. You can try DreamHost for two free then you have to pay $8/month. using discount code you can less $50 in one year DreamHost hosting.

1and1 and DreamHost Control panel Comparison

DreamHost has a full featured hosting control panel and there are all essential tools in it such as auto script installer,backup tools,file manager etc. 1and 1 has one of the worst hosting control panel.  The auto  script installer of 1and1 is called “Click n Build” but it can five you only headache. This application install applications in read only mode and you can not make any change in file permissions for example the .htaccess file is not writable and you can not change the permalink structure in WordPress and you can not update WordPress using dashboard. It is the funniest that when we tell customer care about this problem they suggest us not to use the auto installer.

1and1 and DreamHost Customer Support Comparison

There is no competition in the customer support of these hosting companies. Dreamhost serves fast and responsive customer support including Live Chat while 1and1 customer support is slow and does not include Live Chat in it. There response via email is very slow and they reply after a pretty long duration.

So Finally 1and1 or DreamHost?

Dreamhost is really a Dream Web Host and we recommend DreamHost just after HostGator (our best recommended hosting). But sorry we can not recommend you 1and1 Web Hosting.