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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | |
| Founded | April 10, 1996[1] Claremont, California, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Brea, California, U.S.[2] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez, Sage Weil, Brett Dunst[3] |
| Products | Web and cloud services |
| Parent | New Dream Network, LLC |
| ASN | 26347 |
| Website | www |
DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is owned by New Dream Network, LLC, founded in 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Josh Jones, Michael Rodriguez and Sage Weil, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and registered in 1997 by Michael Rodriguez.[4][5] DreamHost began hosting customers' sites in 1997.[6] In May 2012, DreamHost spun off Inktank.[7] Inktank is a professional services and support company for the open source Ceph file system.[8] In November 2014, DreamHost spun off Akanda, an open source network virtualization project.[9] As of February 2016, Dreamhost employs about 200 people and has close to 400,000 customers.[10]
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