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Does your website have large storage needs? Are you looking for the site storage provided by DreamHost? If yes, you are in luck because we’ll discuss the DreamHost storage limit.
By this article’s end, you’ll learn the database size limit, disk space, inode limit, and email storage limit of the current DreamHost plans. We’ll also address some of your frequent queries related to DreamHost storage to help you make a better decision.
Let’s begin.
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What is the DreamHost storage limit?
DreamHost's current lineup has three shared plans: Web Hosting Launch, Growth, and Scale. Storage doubles with every step up, and all of it is NVMe SSD:
| Plan | Storage | Inodes | Websites | First year | Renews at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | 25 GB | 250,000 | 25 | $2.89/mo | $10.99/mo |
| Growth | 50 GB | 500,000 | 50 | $3.99/mo | $12.99/mo |
| Scale | 100 GB | 1,000,000 | 100 | $9.99/mo | $25.99/mo |
The first-year prices are for a 1-year term paid upfront, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
For most blogs and business sites, the 25 GB on Launch is plenty. Choose Growth or Scale if you host many sites on one account or keep a large media library.
Is DreamHost storage truly unlimited?
No, not on the plans DreamHost sells today. Launch, Growth, and Scale are covered by DreamHost's Resource Allocation Policy, which meters them by disk storage, inode count, and a monthly visitor threshold.
The old Shared Unlimited plan did come with unlimited storage, and accounts that still have it keep that under DreamHost's Legacy Unlimited Policy. New customers can't sign up for it anymore.
Inodes matter as much as gigabytes here. Every file and folder uses one inode, so an account can stay well under its storage limit and still run out of inodes. Cache files, session files, logs, and large WordPress media libraries are the usual causes.
Hitting either limit won't take your site down. Visitors can still load your pages, but you can't upload media, install apps, or save anything new to the server until you delete files or move to a bigger plan. DreamHost sends an email warning when that happens.
How much disk space is there on DreamHost VPS?
DreamHost VPS plans come with a fixed amount of NVMe SSD storage, and they aren't metered by visitors or inodes. The self-managed Stack plans range from 75 GB on Stack 4 to 150 GB on Stack 8, 250 GB on Stack 16, and 450 GB on Stack 32.
If you want DreamHost to manage the server, the Managed VPS Business plan comes with 60 GB of NVMe SSD storage. The managed WordPress plan, DreamPress 1, includes 15 GB.
Now that we have covered the DreamHost storage limit let’s discuss the database size limit.
What is the DreamHost database size limit?
The number of MySQL databases depends on your plan: 25 on Launch, 50 on Growth, and 300 on Scale.
Each MySQL database on DreamHost's shared hosting is limited to 3 GB. This is a hard limit that applies to every account, so keep the overall storage limit of your plan in mind when you create several large databases.
DreamHost provides shared MySQL servers with all its shared hosting plans. They don’t carry all privileges of managing a database. If you need a bigger database, DreamHost offers MySQL VPS plans, where database storage depends on the plan you choose. MySQL can't run on a Managed VPS.
You can read more about the MySQL limitations of shared hosting in DreamHost's knowledge base.
What is the email storage limit?
Every DreamHost mailbox has a 25 GB storage limit.
Email comes at no cost for your first three months on a new Web Hosting plan, with room for 20 mailboxes on Launch, 40 on Growth, and 60 on Scale. Once those three months are over, DreamHost starts billing you for email so your mailboxes keep working. DreamHost's email hosting starts at $1.67 per month per mailbox when billed annually.
Conclusion
DreamHost no longer offers unlimited storage to new customers. You get 25 GB on Launch, 50 GB on Growth, and 100 GB on Scale, plus an inode limit that grows with each plan.
For a typical website, I'd start with Launch at $2.89 per month for the first year. Watch the renewal price, though: it goes up to $10.99 per month after the first year.
Do you have any additional queries concerning the storage limit of DreamHost? If yes, share them in the comment section so I can address them too.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
What is the DreamHost inode limit?
The Launch plan allows 250,000 inodes, Growth allows 500,000, and Scale allows 1,000,000. Every file and folder counts as one inode.
How to find out in DreamHost how much storage space your site uses?
Log in to the DreamHost panel and open the Servers & Usage page. You'll see how much storage and how many inodes you're using next to your plan's limit, plus CPU and RAM graphs.
