DreamHost Review & Benchmarks

Our Verdict

After acquiring a standard VPS plan from DreamHost and subjecting it to our rigorous automated benchmark suite over 7 days, we have compiled our findings. The instance provided consistent CPU performance and low I/O wait times.

Note: We performed these tests anonymously to ensure the provider didn't place us on a reserved, high-performance node.

Performance Benchmarks

Below are the results of our synthetic benchmarks running sysbench and dd tests.

# CPU Sysbench Test
sysbench cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 run
Events per second: 1,452.33

# Disk Speed (I/O)
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.24 s, 865 MB/s
                    

Network Speeds

Network port speed tested using standard speedtest-cli to major global datacenters.

• Download: ~940 Mbps (1 Gbps port)
• Upload: ~890 Mbps
• Latency to US-East: 12ms

Support Quality

We opened a technical ticket asking for assistance with a custom OS kernel modification. Support replied in 15 minutes, which is well above industry standard.