dedicated Server Hosting
Way back when in the days before Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and not really that long after Google, DreamHost was supplying dedicated servers to the masses. Back then, each individual machine was built and deployed as orders came in. At peak. We continued to support those first 150 customers, but we stopped accepting new sign-ups altogether to focus more on our core business of shared hosting.
We realized the error of our decision in
2011 thanks in large part to customer demand. We heavily automated the
deployment process and re-released our dedicated offering with some new
and beefy (at the time) quad-core Intel processors and up to a whopping
16GB of RAM! Even four years ago, that was pretty good! Within the first
several weeks we sold more dedicated servers than we ever supported at
any point in our history. People liked the product!

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