Grade B+ — Fair terms (score 84/100)
DreamHost's terms provide standard service protections but include broad unilateral modification rights, extensive indemnification requirements, and limited liability protections for the company.
Standard hosting terms with broad termination rights and unilateral modifications.
However, it is your responsibility to periodically check for the current version of our Terms by visiting this page... If you continue to use or access the Services after the effective date set forth above, you agree to be bound by any revised Terms.
The company reserves the right to change the terms at any time without direct notification, and your continued use of the service acts as your legal agreement to those new terms.
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold DreamHost harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorneys' fees
You are legally and financially responsible for defending the company against any third-party claims arising from your use of the service, including paying their legal fees.
You hereby grant to DreamHost a perpetual, worldwide, exclusive, irrevocable, and royalty-free license, and right to use, copy, modify, or otherwise utilize your suggestions, feedback, reviews, or testimonials
Any feedback or suggestions you provide become the company's property to use forever, for any purpose, without compensation to you.
You can cancel by accessing the Manage Account panel page.
You can cancel your service through a self-serve online portal rather than needing to call or mail the company.
DreamHost reserves the right to disable or suspend without refund any account or service at any time should it feel, in its sole discretion, that there is a reasonable suspicion that it is being used in violation of any agreed upon terms.
The company has broad authority to terminate your account if they believe you have violated the terms.
Last reviewed 2026-08-26 under rubric v3.5.