Dreamhost is able to offer such a good deal to Kotaku in hopes that they stick around as long term customers. If they do, that makes it worth Dreamhost's while to discount heavily in the first year.

Dreamhost is able to offer such a good deal to Kotaku in hopes that they stick around as long term customers. If…

It lasts 1 year, and then i'm guessing you pay full price.

It lasts 1 year, and then i'm guessing you pay full price.

Other than the price going up in the second year to the normal rate ($120/year) nothing really. I've been using Dreamhost for several years now, and I've rarely had issues. They have relatively low downtime, though you're not probably going to want to host something super high-traffic on it since it's run on shared…

Other than the price going up in the second year to the normal rate ($120/year) nothing really. I've been using…

Usually you'd have to find someone who's already at Dreamhost to find you a deal (which usually consists of the person you're talking to cutting their referral reward in order to give you the discount.) This one's pretty big though.

Usually you'd have to find someone who's already at Dreamhost to find you a deal (which usually consists of the…