What is this?

DreamHost PS is our new invite-only premium shared hosting service, available only as an add-on to a current DreamHost hosting plan. DreamHost PS uses Linux-VServer to give you your own "virtual machine", thereby protecting your CPU and RAM from all other users on your physical machine.

Everything else you've come to looooooove about DreamHost stays the same though: you get all the same features available from the same web panel, the same huge amounts of bandwidth and disk, the same load-balanced email, the same dedicated MySQL servers*, the same so-good support, and the same centralized high-performance storage with automatic versioned backups.

What's so great about it?

• You get your own protected CPU and memory!
• You can still burst up to the much more cpu and memory!
• It works just like your current shared service!
• We'll never kill a persistent process / cronjob you run!
• You can name your own "server"!
• You get a unique IP (a $4.95/month value)!
• You can change your memory and CPU on the fly... no reboot needed!
• You can reboot your own server from our panel instantly!
• You get historical memory / load graphs on our panel!

What's not so great about it?

• It's currently invitation-only.
• It's $1.50/month ($1.00/month forever if you pre-order now!) for each 10 MB and 10 MHz.
• There's a $100 (waived for now!) one-time set up fee.
• You don't get root access... remember, it works just like our regular hosting.
• (But hey, no root means no breaking things... and our hosting is already super flexible!)
• Here's a wiki page on troubleshooting your PS!
• You cannot use Miva Merchant or Frontpage on DreamHost PS.

*New: DreamHost PS MySQL!

• Now, you can get exactly the same sort of memory and cpu isolation you're used to from DreamHost PS for your MySQL databases as well!
• DreamHost PS MySQL is completely separate from DreamHost PS; you can get either one without the other, neither or both!
• ** If you get both DreamHost PS for your web server and for your MySQL, you get 20% off your combined monthly DreamHost PS fees!
• * For MySQL, CPU time is much less important than RAM and disk speed (MySQL PS uses local, raided, high-speed SAS drives). Since it is not a potential bottleneck, on MySQL PS CPU time is approximate... though still proportional to your RAM level.
• DreamHost PS MySQL is version 5.0.24 (and higher in the future) only!

How much Memory / CPU do I need?

Honestly, since you can always adjust your amounts in real time, it's okay to just start randomly and then move it up (or down) if your site seems too slow (or too fast)!
Nonetheless, here's a very rough guideline:

• 150 MB / 150 Mhz: 99% of all predominantly static sites. (e.g. www.dreamhost.com)
• 300 MB / 300 Mhz: A top 100 blog. (e.g. blog.dreamhost.com)
• 515 MB / 515 Mhz: A busy forum. (e.g. discussion.dreamhost.com)
• 2300 MB / 2300 Mhz: A very popular web app. (e.g. panel.dreamhost.com)

We do recommend you start on the HIGH side though, and adjust down. Really ANY problem you may have with your DreamHost PS is ALWAYS due to not setting your levels high enough and running out of ram!

How can I sign up?

As great as this all sounds, DreamHost PS is invitation only for now! HA HA!

If you are currently a DreamHost customer and you want to get in on this sweeeeet new offering, you can pre-order via our panel today!

If you're not already a DreamHost customer, you'll need to remedy that first!