DreamHost versus WordPress.com

Price

• DreamHost From €11.99/mo
  • DreamPress 1: €19.99 monthly
  • DreamPress 1: €179.88 annual (€14.99/mo equivalent)
  • DreamPress 1: €11.99 monthly
  • DreamPress 3: €251.88 annual (€20.99/mo equivalent)
  • DreamPress 5: €359.88 annual (€29.99/mo equivalent)
• WordPress.com From $2.75/mo
  • Personal: $9.00 monthly
  • Personal: $48.00 annual ($4/mo equivalent)
  • Personal: $2.75 monthly
  • Business: $40.00 monthly
  • Business: $300.00 annual ($25/mo equivalent)
  • Business: $17.50 monthly

These prices use different currencies. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.

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Storage

DreamHost DreamPress 1: 15 GB NVMe SSD storageDreamPress 3: 30 GB NVMe SSD storageDreamPress 5: 50 GB NVMe storage

WordPress.com Personal: 6 GB storageBusiness: 50 GB included; storage add-ons are listed from +50 GB to +350 GB

Traffic or visits

DreamHost Visitor allowances are for sizing a plan; DreamHost asks you to contact it if your traffic is unusual.DreamPress 1: 40k monthly visits; unmetered bandwidthDreamPress 3: 125k monthly visitsDreamPress 5: 175k monthly visitors

WordPress.com Unrestricted bandwidth and unlimited visitors, without extra fees or slowdowns

Commitment

DreamHost 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan

WordPress.com Annual and multi-year plans include a free domain for the first year; monthly plans do not.

Backups

DreamHost Business plans: 14-day daily backup retention, 3 on-demand and 3 locked backups per site; Agency plans: 30-day daily backup retention, 5 on-demand and 5 locked backups per siteDreamPress 1: 14 days backup retentionDreamPress 3: 14 days backup retentionDreamPress 5: 30 days backup retention

WordPress.com Business and higher list real-time backups.

Restores

DreamHost Backups are stored offsite on Amazon S3; you can download copies and restore a saved version from the panel, which replaces the live site.

WordPress.com Business and higher list one-click restores.

Migration

DreamHost Professional migrations equal to the number of sites in the plan

WordPress.com Built-in import tool for Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, Medium, Blogger and self-hosted WordPress sites; the Website Design Services team can help.

Staging

DreamHost 1-click staging for each website; it needs at least 5 GB of free space and is not included in the live-site daily backups.

WordPress.com Business: Staging site on Business and higher

Support

DreamHost 24/7 WordPress support by chat and panel requests; chat may start with AI, and you can ask for a person.

WordPress.com Business: Priority 24/7 support, plus SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git and GitHub deployments

Limits to check

• DreamHost Prices are monthly equivalents; annual and multi-year plans are paid upfront, and taxes may apply.
• WordPress.com Real-time backups and one-click restores are only on Business, Commerce and Enterprise.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: DreamHost: websites, introductory rate and renewal rate; WordPress.com: overage charges.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask DreamHost about overage charges; our sources do not establish it yet.
• Ask WordPress.com about websites, introductory rate and renewal rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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