DreamIT Host Essentials Web Hosting, AUD 8.47/mo. on Linux Shared

Essentials Web Hosting has been updated on March 5, 2026 (added July 2, 2020), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	10
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanelDirectAdmin
🔧 Category :	BackupWordpressWebsite Builder
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Australia New Zealand
⚑ Targeting :	AU NZ
💰 Money-back guarantee :	45 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.95 %

See also initial Essentials Web Hosting plan location on their website!

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*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

DreamIT Host is a fully Australian-owned hosting provider with roots going back to around 2014, built around fast NVMe infrastructure, several locations in Australia and New Zealand, and a support team working from Melbourne in the local time zone. They position themselves more as a performance-orientated host for businesses, agencies and e-commerce projects than as a bargain-basement mass provider.

Their portfolio covers almost every typical requirement for an online project: domain registration, .Web shared hosting, Premier high-performance web hosting, email hosting, reseller web hosting, reseller email hosting (with both DirectAdmin and cPanel options), VPS servers, managed/dedicated servers, plus add-ons such as CDN, SSL certificates, website builder, Acronis backup services, security and SEO tools. Across the mainstream hosting lines the common ingredients are NVMe storage, AMD EPYC processors, CloudLinux, KernelCare, LiteSpeed Web Server, free Let’s Encrypt SSL and easy one-click installation for popular applications together with frequent backups.

For most small sites, blogs and business pages, the starting point is the .Web shared hosting line. These plans run on RAID-protected NVMe disks, use CloudLinux to isolate accounts, and pair that with LiteSpeed and hourly Acronis backups. Storage starts at about 5 GB and scales up to around 50 GB per account, with unmetered data transfer, unlimited email accounts and up to 10 addon domains available. WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla and many other CMS or shop systems can be deployed through one-click installers, so the setup process is quick even for less technical users.

Above the regular .Web packages, Premier Web Hosting is aimed at heavier WordPress and e-commerce workloads. These plans sit on higher-spec hardware with more generous CPU and RAM allocations, larger NVMe storage footprints (roughly 75–150 GB), and still keep unlimited bandwidth and unlimited email accounts with around 10 addon domains. The Premier tier is backed by a 100% uptime SLA and includes priority handling by support, which is attractive for sites where a short outage is more than just an annoyance.

Email is handled as a dedicated product rather than just an add-on to hosting. Email hosting plans provide RAID-based mailbox storage (from modest allocations up to large corporate mailboxes), controlled through DirectAdmin and an enhanced CrossBox webmail interface. Built-in spam filtering, DreamRelay for better outbound deliverability, daily backups and the option for a large number of accounts on higher tiers make these plans particularly suitable for businesses that might host their website on a third-party builder but still want reliable, locally hosted email.

Agencies and freelancers are clearly in focus as well. Reseller web hosting with DirectAdmin gives NVMe storage, private nameservers, "unlimited" bandwidth and email accounts per reseller account, hourly backups and free multi-site migrations, making it straightforward to host multiple client projects under one umbrella. Separate reseller email hosting and cPanel reseller hosting lines exist for those who prefer different control-panel ecosystems, with CrossBox webmail and RAID storage available on the email-driven packages.

Once a project outgrows shared hosting, VPS hosting takes over. These are KVM-based virtual servers running on AMD EPYC nodes with NVMe SSD storage and managed through Virtualizor. Locations include Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Auckland, so latency to local users stays low. Plans scale from small instances (around 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM and 50 GB NVMe) up to far more powerful configurations (up to 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM and 400 GB NVMe). Each VPS includes IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, built-in DDoS protection, a 99.95% uptime SLA, and the ability to add licenses for DirectAdmin, cPanel, CloudLinux, KernelCare, DreamGuard (BitNinja-based protection), Softaculous, Virtualizor admin and Acronis backup. Customers can choose between an unmanaged approach or more fully managed arrangements where DreamIT handles more of the system administration.

Beyond VPS, there are managed and dedicated server offerings that use the same basic stack – AMD EPYC, NVMe, Linux, LiteSpeed and CloudLinux – and add proactive monitoring, security hardening, kernel patching and regular updates on top. For content delivery, DreamIT CDN provides edge caching with points of presence in major Australian cities such as Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane plus dozens of international locations. There is also a custom WordPress plugin that integrates the CDN with LiteSpeed caching on the origin servers, which helps keep page load times low even for geographically mixed audiences.

Overall, DreamIT Host is a serious regional provider with modern hardware, sensible product design and a strong emphasis on speed, backups and local support. The range of services is broad enough to grow with most businesses, without becoming confusing or unfocused.