Is DreamHost Down?

No — DreamHost is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 842ms

Last checked 2 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://www.dreamhoststatus.com

DreamHost uptime

100%

Last 7 days

100%

Last 30 days

100%

Last 90 days

614ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 69 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

69-day clean streak

Sep 14 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

fra

668ms

DNS 317ms TCP 2ms TLS 17ms TTFB 617ms

gru

1389ms

DNS 509ms TCP 2ms TLS 19ms TTFB 1059ms

iad

277ms

DNS 37ms TCP 3ms TLS 12ms TTFB 262ms

jnb

1276ms

DNS 469ms TCP 0ms TLS 15ms TTFB 876ms

lax

802ms

DNS 79ms TCP 73ms TLS 84ms TTFB 527ms

lhr

481ms

DNS 127ms TCP 3ms TLS 13ms TTFB 397ms

nrt

487ms

DNS 169ms TCP 1ms TLS 10ms TTFB 444ms

ord

1358ms

DNS 85ms TCP 140ms TLS 149ms TTFB 780ms

What DreamHost does

DreamHost is a web hosting provider running shared hosting, managed WordPress under the DreamPress name, VPS and dedicated servers, alongside domain registration, email hosting and the DreamObjects and DreamCompute cloud products. Customers reach it through the DreamHost panel, and their visitors reach it through whatever site it serves, which is usually where an incident becomes visible first.

What an outage looks like

Sites return 500 errors, connection timeouts or a hosting error page instead of your content, and the WordPress dashboard fails to load while cached front-end pages still serve. Databases refuse connections, producing the 'error establishing a database connection' message. Webmail and email hosting can fail while websites are fine, and the panel and billing may be unreachable while everything customer-facing stays up.

What to do about it

Check www.dreamhoststatus.com, which status.dreamhost.com redirects to. It reports Web Hosting, DreamPress, VPS, Dedicated, Database Hosting, Email Hosting, Webmail, the Web Panel, Billing, Domain Registrations and DreamObjects separately, so a database incident is distinguishable from a web one. Scheduled maintenance is posted there in advance. If only your own site is affected, DreamHost publishes a per-site checklist to work through before opening a ticket.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says DreamHost is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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DreamHost outage FAQ

Is it DreamHost or is it my site?

Load a site hosted somewhere else, then check www.dreamhoststatus.com. If DreamHost reports every component operational and other sites load, the cause is more likely your own code, a plugin update or a database that has stopped accepting connections than the platform itself. DreamHost publishes a troubleshooting checklist for this case, which is worth working through before opening a support ticket.

Why does my site load but the WordPress dashboard does not?

Because the two take different paths. Cached pages and static files can be served without PHP or the database, while the dashboard needs both on every request. Seeing 'error establishing a database connection' in the admin area while the front page still renders points at Database Hosting rather than Web Hosting, and those are reported as separate components on the status page.

Does a DreamHost outage affect my email?

Not necessarily. Email Hosting and Webmail are their own components, so mail can keep flowing while websites are down and the reverse. Mail sent to you while the service is unavailable is generally retried by the sending server rather than discarded. Webmail failing while a desktop mail client still collects mail points at the webmail interface rather than at delivery.

Is my domain registration affected?

Domain Registrations is separate from hosting, and an incident there affects buying, renewing or changing domain settings rather than the resolution of domains already configured. Existing DNS records keep answering from the nameservers whether or not the panel can edit them. A renewal falling inside an incident window is worth confirming afterwards rather than assuming it went through.

How do I know when it is fixed?

The status page posts updates per component and closes the incident when that component returns to operational, which is more reliable than reloading your site. A browser or DNS cache can hold on to a failure, or to a success, for longer than the underlying service, so clear the cache and try a different network before deciding the fix did not work.

How we measure this

We request DreamHost's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where DreamHost publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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