Pressable vs DreamHost
Pressable and DreamHost compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Pressable scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
PressableWins overall
Automattic's managed WordPress host: dedicated PHP workers, four origins, failover, a 100 percent SLA, from $25 a month
Independent since 1997: three shared plans with renewals printed on the card, daily backups and a 100% uptime credit
Pressable wins 4 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.7 vs 7.6).
How do the scores compare?
Pressable leads on 4 sub-scores, DreamHost on 1. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, DreamHost is cheaper ($10.99/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
What does each include?
| Pressable | DreamHost | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | First year, on annual and multi-year terms only |
| Free SSL | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan | Unlimited certificates on every plan |
| Backups | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy | Daily automated backups on every plan, restored from the panel |
| Free migration | Unlimited site migrations on every plan | The product page links a migration path for existing sites; terms not read |
| Free CDN | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations | No |
| Caching | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache | No |
| Staging | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan | No |
| No | 20, 40 or 60 mailboxes free for the first three months, then billed separately | |
| Dedicated resources | 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site with 512 MB each and burst capacity; no shared memory pools | Not stated |
| Data center choice | Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn or Amsterdam per site at creation, with an account default; a secondary server in another region takes over on failure | Oregon, Virginia, Amsterdam and Singapore per the product page and help center; the panel shows where each service lives |
| Uptime guarantee | 100 percent network, infrastructure and hardware SLA with a credit of 5 percent of the monthly fee per 30 minutes of downtime, up to the full month | 100% in the terms, with a credit of one day of hosting per hour of qualifying downtime, up to 10% of the next renewal, counted from the support ticket |
| Developer tools | SSH and WP-CLI described on the features pages, an API, an MCP server, DupliKits site templates, multisite and headless support | Not stated |
| Security | Jetpack Security, malware monitoring and threat response, Secure Hosting Alliance certification | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | No |
| Resource limits | Not stated | No |
| Performance scans | Not stated | Automated and on-demand performance scans on every plan |
| Windows hosting | Not stated | No |