First, let me offer a sincere disclaimer: I've debated whether or not to post this, because I'll get free Web hosting credits when people sign up with the link below.

But I've decided that this deal is simply too amazing not to share, and I just can't feel that guilty for using an affiliate link (when being up-front about it) in this context. I've already set up an account for myself, urged my good friends to get accounts, etc.

Here's the deal:
- 4.8gb of space (increases weekly by 40mb)
- 120gb of monthly bandwidth (increases weekly by 1gb)
- Plus shell access, mySQL, mailing lists, ftp, etc. etc. etc.
- Free 1-year registration of a domain
- Unlimited domain/subdomain hosting

...for $9.24 *TOTAL* for the first year (77 cents a month).
After that, it's $7.95 or $9.95/month (still a fab deal), and perhaps even cheaper by then.

Here's how to sign up:
1) Click here.
2) Click on "Managed Web Hosting."
3) Click on the "signup now" button under "Crazy Domain Insane."
4) Select the 12 month term.
5) Make sure to enter promotion code 777 to receive the special pricing!


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I do welcome your frank thoughts both about this post and about DreamHost. My experience with DH so far has been generally good... a relatively straightforward signup process (with my account active in under 2 minutes), a friendly forum... but on the flip side, my control panel was initially slow, and I find the CP to be a bit unintuitive. Site speed, thankfully, seems pretty fast.

Lastly, I'd like to give a hat tip to the fabulously cool and useful deals site SlickDeals.net, from which I initially learned about this offer.