Hi, I am not currently with Dreamhost, for the record. I am shopping for a new host for my 3 and soon to be four different sites. For my own non profit, i do not yet have a site. I was on TechSoup and saw they had a link that said dreamhost is offering free hosting for non profits, meaning 501c(3). they said they are offering a single strictly business account, i thought it would be some 6-10 dollar a month thing, according to the link, this strictly business account is the $79/MONTH!!! I just found this out today. my mind was spinning looking at the bandwidth! Our nonprofit can make all of the plans we had for our community services come true! I dont know if i will move all of my site to dreamhost, but if this is correct, i would be a FOOL not to put the non-profit on dreamhost. for a free $80/month hosting, i will deal with ANY problem. If anyone know anymore about this, please share.
btw, if you are a non-profit, IT IS ESSENTIAL to hook up to http://www.techsoup.org. its free to sign up. dont get me wrong, i like open source. but you can get software discounts that would make Mr Spock shout or joy. they have crystal reports pro, a 3500 dollar plus program, for a 85$ admin fee. I can get office 2007 AND visio 2007 pro AND Project pro all for under 100 dollars combined! ( we dont have the computers for it, however.) they have computers for a low price, but nothing fancy. they have Adobe CS 2.3, dont know if they will get CS3 in this summer. they have excellent information like on emergency readiness and links to free/cost software as well. they have credit card terminals w/ free printers for $30.00, and most importantly, on may 23, for 10 hours Grantstation will offer its one year membership for $99.00 dollars reg price is 599. grantstation gets you the info you need on available grants for real, at least thats my understanding. my group wil be buying a membership, absolutely.
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Non-profit Discount
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DreamHost offers a FREE Strictly Business plan to non-profit, charitable, organizations registered in the United States.
This discount applies to a single Strictly Business hosting plan per non-profit, hosted within only one account, for US-based 501(c)(3) organizations.
Account extras, add-ons, and domain registrations (other than any included with the plan) are not eligible for any discounts.
New Customers
You will first need to fill out and submit the form at https://dreamhost.com/signup/ .
Then, when you get to the payment page, print it out. Be sure that your DreamHost account number is clearly indicated.
Please fax that page along with proof of your non-profit status to us at 714-990-2600.
Current Customers
Please fax your proof of non-profit status to (714) 990-2600. Indicate your DreamHost account number on your cover letter.
Proving Non-Profit Status
In order to prove your non-profit status we need to receive one crucial piece of documentation. This is an official United States IRS letter indicating tax exempt non-profit status under the appropriate sections of the tax code. This is often called a 501(c)(3) determination letter.
Once the above information has been received we'll configure your account appropriately and you'll be happily hosting your non-profit selves, forever!
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There is a catch
You must be legally classified as non-profit (something like 501(c)). I do work for a group that doesn't even make enough to classify, so we're left out in the cold.
Nancy W.
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Yes, thank you!
I do mention that in the post, and you are right, you must have that 501c(3) exemption letter. We got ours March 12, 2007 HURRAY! let me tell, putting together the 750 dollars, (we got our papers in before the july 1, 2007 deadline last year, so we paid $500 dollars) filling out the 23 page application, waiting the eight months, answering questions from the irs was a drag, but it was
SOOOOOO WORTH the trouble and expense!
it opens up all kinds of doors, if we hook up with this dreamhost alone, we have made our money back and then some, and thats just for starters. i am not sure what you mean by make enough to classify. We had no money, just enough for the fee, we have not had a fundraiser yet. you will be able to do whatever good works you are doing A LOT more effectively if you are legally classified as a non profit.
Our entire annual income
Our entire annual income is only a little more than the money it takes to file. And then we have trouble keeping officers long enough to even define a succession plan. Oh well.
Nancy W.
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Hi Shelley,
I'm a long time Dreamhost customer - with one Drupal site that unfortunately, is a dog...
not the site - but the speed... which has been discussed many times in the forums.
So... did you ever do this? If so, how is it going? How are you finding response times on the site?
thanks!! I'm really interested - I do a lot of work for non-profits.
Rod
I answered you a few days ago
strange, but it didn't post.
I didnt try to sign up when i posted this note. I had to step back because I started taking some classes and projects. Just yesterday, I did fill out the order forms and faxed it in with our 501c3 letter and today, I got the emails notifying us we have been approved for one year!
however, its not the strickly business deal I could have sworn they were offering a few months ago, this is the $10/month deal. same link, but they changed it, its the basic
# 500 GB Disk Storage
# 5 TB Monthly Bandwidth
I can still work with that.
so I will be starting to put the site up in bits as I get the content. I am NOT a developer, its a pain just trying to understand all this dns,set up stuff.
I will FINALLY be putting all kinds of sites up, all but one is mine, a community, two non-profits, and at least a couple of business sites. I will let you know how it all goes on the non profit. my community site has be "up" meaning drupal and losts of modules are installed, no content, with just me as a visitor. and it is indeed rather slow, so i will have to decided what modules i really need. I have been doing a lot of downloading modules and themes, but thats its, havent gotten my hands dirty at all.
but that being said, its FREE to your non-profits, so its worth a try, whats to lose?
Dreamhost is one of the worst hosting companies out there
Dreamhost only cares about how they can take money out of your pocket. They put out phony free trial offers out there to get you to sign up with them, and then bang you are charged with their hefty setup fees. Then you ask wasn't this a free trial offer, and they show you some fine print that makes it legit for them to charge you with the fee. Stay away from them like a plague. And if you did decide to go ahead and have an account with them, you better read every little text they email you or they post on your account. My advice is that it is not worth dealing with a company that you have to watch your back constantly with them. With a good company, you don't have to watch your back.
non-profits: hosting
Just for the record, I host a qualified non-profit (501(c)3 status) with DreamHost, and it's been working out great. So I guess I'd second the favorable review of their services, and feel unsure as to what the complaint above is about.
I mean, maybe somebody had a bad experience with DreamHost that I am unaware of -- totally possible, and don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to steal any of your cred -- I'm just saying they've been really good to me. (I just kind of felt obligated to put my two cents in, getting free web hosting from them and all.)