E-Commerce Options – DreamHost offers the free ZenCart, which you can access from the One Click Install menu. This open-source online shopping cart software lets users quickly check out the products that you have for sale. It also supports Woo Commerce.

Security and Other Features – DreamHost offers antispam on its email, but no antimalware services. That oversite aside, we like its attention to other aspects of website security. The control panel has an easy-to-find link for editing the .htaccess file to control access to the site or to set up a password. For parts of the site that shouldn’t get indexed by search engines, you can block spiders. You can set up cron jobs (automated batch jobs) to schedule tasks and monitor processes on the site. DreamHost also offers free secure-socket layer (SSL) certificates, which is a must-have addition for people who sell products online.

Terrific Uptime – website uptime is a vital element of the web hosting experience. If your site goes down, clients or customers will be unable to find you or access your products or services. For this testing, we use a website monitoring tool to track my site’s uptime over a 14-day period. Every 15 minutes, the tool pings my website and sends us an email if it is unable to contact the site for at least one minute. The data revealed that DreamHost is incredibly stable, and didn’t go down during the test period. In fact, there’s been only a single, brief failure in many, many months. As a result. you can count on DreamHost to be a rock-solid foundation for your website.