DreamHost is usually described as best for transparency and long-term value. That is a fair description. Here is where we differ.
What Queantic does that a host does not
- Nothing to set up. No server, no cPanel, no WordPress install, no PHP version to pick. You choose a template and the site is live on an address with SSL already issued.
- Mailboxes are part of the plan. Real mail at your own address, as many as you need, on every plan — not a per-mailbox add-on and not a trial that lapses.
- Analytics are already wired in. Not a plugin you install and a dashboard you learn: the numbers arrive with the site, and they are written as what to change on which page, in order of impact.
- Traffic is not a bill. You pay for pages, never for visitors, so a good week never turns into an overage.
Where each of us fits
DreamHost
- Straightforward pricing and a long-standing reputation
- Shared, VPS and managed WordPress options to choose between
- Best value comes from committing to a multi-year term
- The site, its plugins and its updates remain yours to run
- Analytics are a plugin decision you make later
Queantic
- Monthly, with no term to commit to for the price to make sense
- One product, so there is no tier to work out
- We run the site, not just the machine under it
- Mail at your own address on every plan
- The numbers that matter arrive explained, not raw
Questions worth asking either of us
We would rather you decide on answers than on adjectives. These are the questions that actually separate hosting plans, and you should put all of them to us as well as to DreamHost.
- What does it cost on renewal, not in the first term?
- Who installs the updates, and who is responsible when one breaks the site?
- What happens to the bill on the week the site does unusually well?
- How many mailboxes are included, and what do they cost after that?
- When traffic arrives, what tells me which page to change next?
DreamHost is a good choice if you want a server and you are happy to run what sits on it. Queantic is the better choice if you would rather not have a server at all — and would rather the site told you what to fix next.
We describe DreamHost at the level of how their kind of hosting works, not their current plans — those change, and we would rather send you to check than tell you something stale. Everything stated about Queantic is what our plans do today.