Hosting.com vs. DreamHost (2026): Zwei Veteranen, die ihren eigenen Pitch neu geschrieben haben - DEUTSCH

What Both Hosts Quietly Changed in 2025

If your mental picture of either host is more than a year old, update it.

DreamHost made three moves. The 97-day money-back guarantee, the longest in mainstream hosting and a real differentiator for years, dropped to 30 Tage im Juli 17, 2025. WordPress.org removed DreamHost from its recommended-hosts page; as of the March 2026 aktualisieren, that list reads Pressable, Bluehost, und Hostinger. And DreamHost opened its first data center outside the US, in Amsterdam, ending two decades of US-only hosting.

A2 Hosting's change was blunter: it stopped being A2 Hosting. Weltgastgebergruppe, a UK holding company, bought the brand and folded it into Hosting.com on April 28, 2025. The plan names changed (Anfang, Fahrt, Turbo Schub, and Turbo Max became Starter, Plus, Profi, and Max), and a2hosting.com now redirects to hosting.com. The support team and the cPanel-based setup carried over.

Here's why that matters before you read another word. The two things people "know" about these hosts, DreamHost's 97-day guarantee and the A2 name, are both obsolete. Both refunds now sit at 30 Tage. Neither host is WordPress.org-recommended. Start from there.

Preisgestaltung, and Why Site Count Decides This One

Both lead under USD 3/mo. Both renew at three to four times that. But the number that splits them isn't the price, it's how many sites each plan lets you run.

Einstiegsstufe

• DreamHost Launch: USD 2.89/mo for the first year, erneuert bei 10,99 USD/Monat. 25 GB NVMe (fast flash storage), 25 Websites, Kostenlose Domain im ersten Jahr, kostenloses SSL.
• Hosting.com Starter: USD 2.99/mo for the first year, erneuert bei 11,99 USD/Monat. 15 GB NVMe, 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 1 Webseite, daily backups kept 30 Tage.

Look past the near-identical entry price. DreamHost Launch renews USD 1/mo cheaper and lets you host 25 sites to Hosting.com Starter's one, mit 10 GB mehr Speicherplatz. For anyone running more than a single site, that isn't a close call. Hosting.com's counter is what sits under the hood: LiteSpeed (ein leistungsstarker Webserver) with caching built in, published RAM and CPU figures, und cPanel. DreamHost doesn't publish per-tier RAM and runs a custom panel instead.

Mid tier

• DreamHost Growth: USD 3.99/mo intro, erneuert bei 12,99 USD/Monat. 50 GB NVMe, 50 Websites.
• Hosting.com Plus: from USD 2.99/mo intro, erneuert bei 14,99 USD/Monat. 30 GB NVMe, 3 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 2 Websites.

Same story, wider gap. Growth renews USD 2/mo cheaper than Plus, carries 20 GB mehr Speicherplatz, and lifts the site cap to 50 against Plus's hard limit of 2. Plus keeps its LiteSpeed edge and a guaranteed 3 GB RAM, handy for one resource-hungry WordPress site. But if you're hosting a handful of small sites, Growth's headroom wins easily.

Top tier

• DreamHost Scale: USD 9.99/mo intro, erneuert bei 25,99 USD/Monat. 100 GB NVMe, 100 Websites.
• Hosting.com Max: erneuert bei USD 27.99/mo. 100 GB NVMe, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 100 Websites.

This is the closest match: both give 100 GB und 100 Websites. Hosting.com Max costs USD 2/mo more at renewal, but it publishes 8 GB garantierter RAM, 4 vCPU, und LiteSpeed. DreamHost Scale lists neither a RAM figure nor a web-server upgrade. For one demanding site, Max's disclosed resources are reassuring. Zum 100 small sites that mostly idle, Scale's lower price and identical storage make more sense. So oder so, if you're scoping the wider market first, unser Shared-Hosting-Zusammenfassung shows where both land.

DreamHost also does something A2 never has and most hosts won't: true month-to-month billing. Launch runs USD 11.99/mo with no contract, roughly its annual renewal rate, so you can leave any month without forfeiting a prepaid year. Hosting.com's promo pricing requires a 12-month term. Want to test a host without committing a year? DreamHost is the only one of the two that lets you.

Systemsteuerung, LiteSpeed, and the WordPress Question

The biggest day-to-day difference here isn't speed or price. It's the dashboard you log into.

Hosting.com runs cPanel, das Industriestandard-Bedienfeld. Wenn Sie schon einmal Hosting genutzt haben, you already know it, every WordPress tutorial assumes it, and moving to another cPanel host later is painless. DreamHost runs its own custom panel instead. It's cleaner and less cluttered than cPanel, which beginners often prefer. But it's also a form of lock-in. There's no one-click cPanel-to-DreamHost transfer, and guides written for cPanel won't match what you see.

On the WordPress engine itself, the two take different routes. Hosting.com ships LiteSpeed with the LSCache plugin on every plan, the strongest origin caching stack for WordPress right now. DreamHost runs an NGINX-based stack with no LiteSpeed. Both shared plans offer free Cloudflare CDN integration (a content delivery network serves your files from servers near each visitor), so global delivery is a one-click option either way. The real split sits at the origin: Hosting.com's LiteSpeed gives it a faster first byte on a cached page, while DreamPress, DreamHost's managed tier, adds an always-on built-in CDN.

Speziell für verwaltetes WordPress, DreamHost sells DreamPress from USD 11.99/mo intro (Verlängerung für 16,99 USD/Monat), with the CDN, tägliche Backups, and automatic updates handled for you. Hosting.com doesn't field a separate managed-WordPress brand; its shared plans are the WordPress product. If you want a hands-off setup, DreamPress is the more complete package of the two. For heavier managed options than either offers, sehen Sie unsere Managed WordPress Hosting-Leitfaden.

One thing not to weigh here: the WordPress.org "empfohlen" Abzeichen. DreamHost lost its listing in 2025, and Hosting.com never held one, so it can't break the tie either way. Judge these two on stack, Preis, and panel instead.

Geschwindigkeit, Betriebszeit, and Data Centers

Neither host is a category speed leader, and the third-party numbers run closer than either's marketing.

On TTFB (Zeit bis zum ersten Byte, wie schnell der Server zu reagieren beginnt), unabhängig 2025-2026 testing puts DreamHost around 385 ms globally, with US-only samples nearer 185 Frau. Hosting.com measured about 462 ms in the US and closer to 642 ms globally. Treat those as origin figures. Both hosts offer free Cloudflare integration that, once enabled, trims the distance for far-flung visitors, so the real-world gap is smaller than the raw global numbers suggest. For a US-centric site on a nearby Hosting.com region, LiteSpeed can even pull it ahead.

Uptime is a near-tie. DreamHost advertises a 100% uptime SLA with account credits if it misses, and independent monitors clock it around 99.96 zu 99.97% in der Praxis. Hosting.com posted 99.98% in late-2025 monitoring against a 99.9% GRÜNER SALAT. Both come out to a few hours of downtime a year. Don't decide on this alone.

Data centers used to be a clean win for Hosting.com, and partly still are. It hosts in roughly a dozen locations across the US, Europa (Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt), Asien (Mumbai, Singapur), und Sydney. DreamHost ran US-only for two decades (Ashburn, Virginia und Hillsboro, Oregon) until it opened Amsterdam in 2025. If your audience sits in India, Singapur, oder Australien, Hosting.com has a nearby region and DreamHost doesn't. If it's in the US or Western Europe, both cover you, and a free Cloudflare CDN narrows the rest on either host.

Support and How You Actually Reach a Human

Both run 24/7 Unterstützung, but how you reach them differs in a way that matters at 2am.

Hosting.com keeps a directly dialable phone line alongside live chat and tickets, a holdover from A2's Guru Crew team. You call, a person picks up. DreamHost hat no call-in number überhaupt. Unterstützung ist 24/7 Live-Chat (in English and Spanish) und Tickets, and a phone callback is available only as a paid add-on. For chat-first users that's fine, and DreamHost's chat is well regarded for response speed. But if hearing a voice when checkout breaks is your test, Hosting.com is the only one of the two that offers it at no extra charge.

And both refunds now run 30 Tage, so the safety net is identical. Was auch immer Sie wählen, you get a month to decide, not the quarter DreamHost used to offer.

How to Choose Between DreamHost and Hosting.com

Skip the feature grid. Finden Sie unten Ihre Situation.

Multi-site owner: Laufen 5 or more small sites (a few client builds, a couple of side projects) on one plan. Gehen DreamHost Growth (Verlängerung für 12,99 USD/Monat, 50 Websites, 50 GB). Hosting.com Plus caps you at 2 sites and Pro at 10, and Pro renews higher at USD 22.99/mo. Pick Hosting.com here only if one of those sites needs LiteSpeed caching badly enough to justify the per-site math.

Einzelne WordPress-Site, you want the fastest cached pages and cPanel? Gehen Hosting.com Starter (US Dollar 2.99 Einführung, US Dollar 11.99 Erneuerung) with LiteSpeed and LSCache built in. DreamHost matches the price but runs NGINX and a custom panel, so a cache-heavy blog serves its first byte faster on Hosting.com from a nearby region. If your readers are spread worldwide, a free CDN evens things out on either host, so this matters less than you'd expect.

Budget: under USD 13/mo, and you want a hands-off managed WordPress setup. Gehen DreamHost DreamPress (USD 11.99/mo intro), which bundles the CDN, Backups, und automatische Updates. Hosting.com has no separate managed tier at that price, so you'd be self-managing a shared plan. For genuinely hands-off WordPress on a budget, DreamPress is the pick.

Tinkerer who wants a cheap VPS to run yourself: Hosting.com's unmanaged VPS starts at USD 4.99/mo (US Dollar 9.99 Erneuerung). DreamHost's VPS is managed-only and starts at USD 10/mo (US Dollar 24.99 Erneuerung), with no full root access (it points root users to a separate cloud product). For a low-cost box you control, Hosting.com wins; for managed VPS where you never touch the server, DreamHost. If VPS is the main event, unser VPS-Hosting-Vergleich has stronger picks than either.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Does DreamHost still have a 97-day money-back guarantee?

Nein. DreamHost cut its money-back guarantee from 97 Tage bis 30 days on July 17, 2025. That matches Hosting.com's 30-day window exactly, so the long refund that used to set DreamHost apart is gone. Reviews still quoting 97 days are out of date. Email, dedizierte Server, and DreamHost's cloud product are excluded from the 30-day guarantee.

Is DreamHost still recommended by WordPress.org?

Nein. WordPress.org removed DreamHost from its recommended-hosts page; as of the 2026 aktualisieren, the list reads Pressable, Bluehost, und Hostinger. DreamHost held a spot for years, which is why older articles still call it "officially recommended." Hosting.com (ehemals A2 Hosting) has never been on the list. For a DreamHost-versus-Hosting.com decision, the badge applies to neither one now.

Does DreamHost or Hosting.com use cPanel?

Hosting.com uses cPanel on every plan, einschließlich geteilt. DreamHost uses its own custom control panel, nicht cPanel. If you already know cPanel or want an easy move to another cPanel host later, Hosting.com is the safer pick. If you prefer a simpler, less cluttered dashboard and don't mind the lock-in, DreamHost's panel is friendlier for first-timers.

Which is cheaper for hosting multiple websites?

DreamHost, by a wide margin on site count. Its Launch plan hosts 25 sites at a USD 10.99/mo renewal, while Hosting.com Starter allows one site at USD 11.99/mo. Step up and DreamHost Growth gives 50 sites for USD 12.99/mo against Hosting.com Plus's 2 sites at USD 14.99/mo. For a single site the prices are close. For many sites, DreamHost is clearly cheaper.

Is A2 Hosting the same as Hosting.com now?

Ja. World Host Group bought A2 Hosting and folded it into Hosting.com on April 28, 2025, and a2hosting.com redirects there. Your old A2 account, the support team, and the cPanel setup carried over, while the plan names changed to Starter, Plus, Profi, and Max. The service runs the same, under a new name.

Endgültiges Urteil

DreamHost is the better default for most buyers here. Run more than one site, want month-to-month flexibility, or want hands-off managed WordPress on a budget, and its 25-to-100 site allowances, US Dollar 10.99 entry renewal, and DreamPress package win on value. Skip DreamHost if you specifically need LiteSpeed caching, cPanel, or a phone line you can dial, none of which it offers.

Hosting.com (ehemals A2 Hosting) is the pick for a single demanding site and for buyers who care about the stack. LiteSpeed with LSCache on every plan, published RAM and EPYC processors, cPanel-Vertrautheit, a directly dialable phone line, and a dozen global data centers are real advantages for one heavy WordPress or WooCommerce site. Skip Hosting.com if you're hosting several sites on one plan or want billing flexibility, where DreamHost's site counts and month-to-month option are hard to beat.

Still deciding? Unser Hosting-Finder-Tool matches you to a provider by budget, der Verkehr, and audience location. To see Hosting.com against a different rival, das A2 Hosting vs SiteGround comparison covers how the rebrand reshaped that matchup. And if managed WordPress is really what you're after, unser managed hosting guide weighs DreamPress against heavier-duty options.