Dreamhost in the past catered to high end savvy web developers. In recent months this focus has shifted to the low end entry level single page websites.

In fact, Dreamhost no longer wants to even host user email. A function that has been a staple of personalized web hosting for years. Dreamhost no admits that they cannot handle nor provide customers with a basic web hosting service and now suggest that all users route their email through Google by default.

Maybe in the future Dreamhost will simply provide DNS service and nothing else, having realized that it cannot provide a good customized web service to its clients.

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