"We at DreamHost have been happily hosting our clients' dreams (and websites) since April 1997 - close to a century ago in Internet years! That was when we (four Computer Science undergraduates at hmc.edu in Claremont, CA) launched this company with no capital apart from a single Pentium 100 web server (Destro was her name), using shared bandwidth on a T1 line that a friend gave us at no cost."
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| Rannison | 31 Jan 10 |
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I have never written a review before, but I nor have I ever been so enraged before. I was totally scammed, and I have vowed to submit as many reviews as I can muster about my experience in order to warn others. I can see that several people have given positive reviews. Perhaps in the past, DreamHost was an honest and reliable company. They certainly aren’t anymore. My wife and I are starting a mousery, and this was our first attempt at making our own website. My wife saw that DreamHost was offering a free trial, so she decided to try it out. It was suppose to be completely free. However, when we clicked on our account status, it stated we owed $109. Already getting a bad feeling, she informed me of the situation, and I took over and tried to cancel the account. We were told we cannot cancel until we paid our balance. I then sent an email, and I was told something along the lines of “no problem, we’ll close your free trial, but you will be charged a $9.95 registration fee”. After many emails and tempers lost, we were resigned to having to pay. Apparently, it was “stated in the terms and agreements”. Actually, it wasn’t; it was stated in a separate hyperlink below the terms and agreements. However, legally at least, it was stated on their page. I still cannot even begin to comprehend how a major company can resort to such petty, deceitful, and disgusting methods to con people. However, I will make sure that everyone knows about this so that no one will ever be scammed again like us. If you can, please help us spread the word.
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| Michael Garson | 2 Dec 09 |
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Their price is great, but I had some unresolvable e-mail issues and had to leave. My wife's client (Comcast) could not recieve her e-mails. They asked her have them look into why Comcast was blocking them. (Sure, ask a Corporate Giant to have their IT people look into one small contractors problem.) The only solution we could come up with was to switch hosts, and the problem was solved.
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| Michael | 25 Nov 09 |
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I'm in the midst of my second multi-day outage in a month. It's now 2 days before Thanksgiving - imagine if I relied on e-commerce for making money!
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| Phoenixheart | 29 Oct 09 |
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I was with DreamHost for 2 years. They has a very good set of features - the control panel is just great, and the monthly newsletter is cool to read. However, the quality can only be considered great is your site is really, really small. My site thica.net was starting to get about 2000 to 3000 views per day, and downtime started to happen EVERYDAY. I contacted them, and all they did was blaming me and my scripts (actually it was a *normal* WordPress installation!). Not any real help ever! The responding time was not that good neither. So after one week with no real support from their so called support team, I decided to leave, and never looked back.
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| Timid | 23 Sep 09 |
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I just switched to steadfast from Dreamhost because i was sick and tired of the slowness of their database driven website hosting. I even tried their Private servers for a month but had no noticeable improvement so here i am. I mentioned it at least 3 times over past year hoping that things would improve. They even switched me to there newer servers; no noticeable improvement there either. I use Textpattern CMS for all my sites and in testing mode one can output runtimes and querytimes for each page. The bad news for dreamhost is that steadfast is anything between 200% and 1000% faster. I was getting average runtimes by dreamhost of 0,3 sec. now the average is 0,06 secs. A vast improvement. 2,3 times a year email and site would be down grrrrr that's really frustrating, especially for my clients, who get angry responses from there clients. I really regret having to leave Dreamhost because I loved the back end admin side and extensive options, helpful and fast support; but at the end of the day, unreliability and extreme slowness of the sql database meant i just had to move on :-(
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| js | 30 Aug 09 |
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DreamHost would have been the best of cheap webhosting if their servers do not crash and go down so frequently. It's absolutely a nightmare. Their control panel is great, support not bad too, but what do these matter if the server is down for 1/5 of the time?! We need uptime! That's essentially what makes a great web host! But on the contrary, DreamHost is way beyond a bad host in uptime. Absolutely NOT recommended, even with a small budget you can find better uptime services elsewhere.
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| cold_bologna | 30 Jul 09 |
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I've been hosting my sites at Dreamhost for about 5 years. They used to be awesome, but they've gone downhill. Dreamhost is great if you have a site that receives little or no traffic. If you have any sort of following, however, any little spike may cause them to take down your site without notice, forcing you to contact support to find out what's gone wrong. The only way to contact support is via email, and response times are slow, so when your site goes down it will be down for a while. Random downtime (problems, maintenance, etc) is also rather frequent. Dreamhost is inexpensive, and they have a nice control panel, but beyond that there's not much to like these days.
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| Robert | 4 May 09 |
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I have a small business website hosted on Dreamhost, as well as my email. I got the unlimited bandwidth and diskspace promotion at $20 for the first year, with a discount, and I'll sign up for a long time when I need to renew. The main thing is really the SSH access. I wrote an entire webmail application in 'nano' over SSH on their servers - even used it to get around and proxy through a overly restrictive content filter. No problems with any of it, email, webhosting, or the rest. I actually enjoy getting their newsletter every month - they're hilarious, in a moderately-amusing way. Can't say anything bad about 'em. I'm sure some people have had bad experiences, and I know they've had problems, but give them a shot for a year! If you get a coupon code, you can get almost $100 off the $120/y cost...
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| Danny | 30 Apr 09 |
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I got my dreamhost account for 10 bucks for a whole year. That was amazing. Unlimited everything, free domain, and all of that :) The only thing that they aren't as good with is subversion. Its been down only once which is good and my website has never been down at all. Their control panel is 100% custom and it is amazing. Id rather use it over cPanel anyday. The SSH access is amazing too. You can do just about anything :) I love dreamhost and will probably get hosting from them for a while. I have about 5 gigs of stuff on my account and use about 40-60 gigs of bandwidth per month and its amazing still! Support is good & fast except that they don't have livechat or free phone support. Dreamhost is overall amazing!
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| Tripter | 14 Apr 09 |
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We've used Dreamhost for several years, and switched to their Private Server (PS) option almost 2 years ago. We host a 300,000 page website that gets about 1 DB intensive page hit per second, and have had no problems, even with only modest resource allocation. I've enjoyed their service and their unrivaled transparency. When things go wrong, they explain what's happening and what they're doing to fix it and prevent it in future. I've found their service quite prompt, knowledgeable and courteous. They don't pretend to be the most stable service, but they do succeed in their goal: providing value for money with features that many developers appreciate. Please note that you can host as many sites as you like on a single account at no extra cost. Invaluable for those managing client accounts.
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| Jeff Meade | 28 Feb 09 |
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Ive used Dreamhost since 2003 and have rarely had problems. They always respond to me within 24 hours if something does come up, but in the past six years Ive had maybe five reasons to contact them. Their service is usually very reliable, but there have been a couple of times in the past where I had some site down issues that took a little while to get fixed. They are a good host to use.
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| Shahid | 10 Feb 09 |
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Very slow. Even very small image files (45kb) take long enough to download that having a simple slideshow of several images is not possible. Their IP address is listed as Spam so emails sent via dreamhost often end up in peoples junk folder. They're cheap, bandwidth is plenty and domains unlimited but you get what you pay for; a slow and unusable website.
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| Ryan francis | 26 Jan 09 |
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Please, do your self a favour and stay away. Remember the age old saying, "if it's too good to be true, then it is." They are dirt cheap and with it comes HUGE headaches. I've been with them for 3 months. The shared hosting server I am on is down, on average at least 10 hours a day. No joke! Your site crashes when 15 people are on it. This is not just issues related to my script or site. Just check the comments on their own status blog. http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2009/01/25/eastman-having-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-230238
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| Timidfriendly | 6 Jan 09 |
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But at the moment it is really really slow!
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| John | 1 Jan 09 |
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I recently signed up to DreamHost in order to host a number of domains on a constantly improving package. The price for what you actually get seems very good. I get an excellent package, the ability to host unlimited domains & subdomains. Even things like cron jobs, subversion servers, etc. As for the support, if something goes wrong they usually respond within 24 hours and check to see if the problem has been fixed to your satisfaction. They even have a little box that lets you select how experienced a user you are so that they may tailor the response to your needs! Best host I've ever used.
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| squeegee | 29 Sep 08 |
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I have been with dreamhost for about 3 years, and I've been happy with them. The complaints about php/mysql performance are valid. However, for me, in the grand scheme of things, an extra second or two doesn't hurt my users enough to make me change hosts (especially since I've used other hosts that were worse). When I originally signed up, it was directly because of their ability to support PHP5, which was hard to get at the time. Bottom line is I am satisfied with them, and the 10TB+ bandwidth I now have is very useful.
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| thinksojoe | 15 Jul 08 |
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I've had horror stories to tell about many previous hosts I've used. I only have one about Dreamhost, but anybody who was a member of the service at the time has the same story. Luckily, Dreamhost took care of that issue and took measures so that it never happens again. I've never had a downtime problem, never a problem with customer support, and never a problem using their panel. For ten bucks a month I'm hosting FIVE websites and still have plenty of server space and bandwidth to expand on that. How can you go wrong?
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| John V | 26 Jun 08 |
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I've been using Dreamhost as my host for about 9 months now. I had one spat with downtime, all of 4 hours on my cluster. It was for upgrades, not a crash. Features are reasonably good, but the panel can be a pain sometimes. They use a custom Control Panel, but it is fairly well feature packed, and easy to use. It just takes getting used to. Support was great 7 out of 8 times I've contacted them. The 1 bad time was when no one there had a clue how to check and see if my mysql was having a heart attack, or just the sql server as a whole. because they couldnt figure that out, my site was lagged down. I figured it out on my own. Pricing is spectacular. You cant beat it. So far, I've abused it here and there for bandwidth, but nothing major yet. About 400mb a day lately. I plan to begin hosting COD4 maps on it, so that will add a bit of bandwidth to test the theory of 5+TB of BW a month.
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| Christopher Smith | 21 Jun 08 |
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Thankfully I have got away from dreamhost, from my view it appeared that some of their clusters were good and other were bad, I was on the Spacey Cluster (On server Monster) and had constant downtime because of issues with the filer servers, mysql clusters. I recorded around 93% uptime the whole time which in this day and age is not good enough. Whilst I was there there was two major network outages and well as a billing issue in which they just made fun of it on their blog and then said hey this guy did it which I think is very unfair on their staff. For features it had everything, but I found the package was misleading in regards to bandwidth allowance, not that I could use it. I was also randomly blamed for making the server slow so they randomly deleted files off some of my sites disabled two of the domains and found it wasn't me, no sorry or anything just sarcastic comments from their unhelpful staff. What I hate the most is the attitude from members who love them (Get $80 for every signup using their URL's), they will do everything they can to defend Dreamhost so they can continue making their money.
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| Jonah Coyote | 2 May 08 |
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Dreamhost is amazing! They do have some downtime issues but I'm willing to overlook those for everything else. There have been some recent hiccups with one of the file servers which had caused some slowness issues but they appear to be fixed and now everything is back to normal. Their support is always fast, very succinct, helpful, friendly and straight to the point. Their servers overall are fast and the features are practically endless. One of my favorite features is they have been 100% carbon neutral since 2007! On top of all that their prices are incredible and if you search carefully you can find some awesome coupon codes to get you free domains and dedicated ip's for life! Thank you Dreamhost!
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| BrandonE97 | 30 Apr 08 |
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I've been with Dreamhost a little over a year and during that time I've had very fast and solid hosting. Using PHP and SQL on my site, their servers run anything I've coded without problems (except my own coding errors lol). They are feature rich and answer trouble tickets usually within 30 minutes to an hour. Thanks for some awesome hosting Dreamhost and keep up the good work!
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| Pollie Barden | 24 Apr 08 |
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Dreamhost was the host du jour for the master program. It is attractive because of its low pricing. For development, back 2006 they were fairly responsive now they are less timely. When I was part of a group developing a mobile game. We started on Dreamhost but they had a fire that took down their whole system and we could not wait for them to return and uncertainty so we had to switch providers. A couple of months ago they inadvertly charge users who had auto renewal for an additional year. Their response was flippet and were not acknowledging how much of problem it was for people on budgets. I have remained with dreamhost for sites that are not that critical to up 24/7. I would not recommend them for a business oriented site that needs 24/7 support and uptime.
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| Avi G. | 6 Apr 08 |
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I have been with dreamhost for over a year now. Their prices are amazing. They give you a huge amount of bandwidth and disk space. Their servers are extremely fast. I have never experienced any downtime on the server that I am on, but I have seen them post about downtime. They seem to be very reliable when informing their customers about downtime and they try to fix problems very quickly. Their SSH access is a very nice added bonus and allows you to use your hosting as a place to run perl and ruby scripts. Their support team is very good. When I have encountered errors with scripts I was trying to write or had any problems with a part of their site my tickets were answered within an hour and the responses were helpful. Overall I am completely satisfied with them and I would recommend them to anyone!
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| Proj Omni | 26 Mar 08 |
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I've had terrible luck with DreamHost. My site was down 5 times in 5 consecutive days, and I'd never use them again. I just don't understand why people rave about DreamHost; they are the rock bottom of all of my experiences with hosting services.
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| Charle Remen | 12 Mar 08 |
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I've been with DreamHost for about 2 years now, and I have been running different kinds of software on my site(s) - IP. Board, MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress, and stuff like that. I found that it's true what "most people" (seems like it to me at least) say these days; it's a great host for certain things, like static pages, storage and bandwidth, but not so great for php and mysql software. Their support has always been top nothc, I'll give them that. I can dig the silly ninja humor in their newsletters, too - but when you're struggling with uptime and slowness, that really doesn't cheer you up anymore. I have decided to move on to a new host that can give me what I need; perhaps I just didn't realize what I needed before I signed up with them, and saw that on paper (or is that monitor?) their stuff was great! In any case, I now know what I need, and I know that I have to look elsewhere for a host that can provide me with the uptime and resources I require for the software (see above) I wish to run. I'd give DreamHost a 4 on my d6.
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| Ryan Olson | 10 Mar 08 |
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I finally switched hosts after about 6 months because their server was down atleast twice a week it seemed.
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| David J. | 3 Mar 08 |
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I have been with Dreamhost for about a year now, utilizing their package for personal purposes. Overall they've completely satisfied me with both their bandwidth, space and features. I haven't had the opportunity to use their support but beyond their small (but nasty) billing fiasco they have been perfect for me.
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| BH | 16 Jan 08 |
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I currently use DreamHost to host two sites with one of them being registered there as well. The larger of the two sites has been there since 1999, serves approx. 4,000 pages per day (not counting the faviocon, robots, and the like) and has an announcement list of approx. 1,000 users who subscribed using a (DreamHost provided) automated system. I have also used DreamHost in the past to host a site for a blogger-run-blog when I had the time to post. The web hosting aspect is easy to use with standard ftp or secure-ftp access. The management of the various other things (changing billing options, checking user statistics, web-mail, forwarding/redirecting e-mail, and setting up e-mail subscription lists) is very user friendly. The team running it always has a sense of humor in their blog and newsletter -- but doesn't let that get in the way of getting the job done. I have contacted them over a dozen times in the past with questions on topics such as transferring domains and the use of mailing lists and have gotten helpful responses within 24 hours to each one, often much quicker. (They also have a support wiki that answers a lot of standard questions). I had a recent (my fault, I left a door open type) of security breach and they responded to my e-mail that day and followed up again the next. The most negative publicity they have received is that recently they had a billing error where customers who were using automatic billing on their credit or debit cards were billed in advance. They caught the error, put a notice up about it on the status page, set about reversing the charges (e-mailing each person when their charges were reversed), and explained the entire situation on their blog.
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| Derrick | 6 Jan 08 |
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I was with Dreamhost for about 4 years, and for the most part it's a good service. I really like the control panel and features they make available. My problem is with speed and uptime. If I had to guess, it's probably down to luck for the most part, whether you get put on a shared server that is bogged down or not. About 80% of the time I would load up my site there would be at least a two or three second delay before anything appeared. Doesn't sound like much but when you're adjusted to everything loading in a matter of milliseconds it's quite off putting. And on top of that, there would be downtime more frequently than I am comfortable with.
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| Melissa | 6 Jan 08 |
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I signed up for Dreamhost in July 06 and it's been an excellent experience. I enjoy the up close and personal approach of the administrators and the support is always fast and accurate. My uptime has been fabulous and I love how much space I have for a relatively low price. My only wish is for some features a little more geared towards reselling. I host two other people on my account and they can see all my domains and I can see theirs. It gets a bit messy.
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| Bradfields | 2 Oct 07 |
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I've been using Dreamhost for both business and home stuff for over a year now. The occasional bit of downtime occurs but nothing i'm too worried about. The same Same for speed issues, sometimes it gets a bit slow but never for long. For the price you pay and what you get this company is a winner.
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| Jason | 24 Sep 07 |
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For the price I pay for the amount of space i get this is a brilliant host. I couldnt ask for faster support. Usually requests are answered with in 15 minutes. Good Wiki and active forums. Easy to use admin section and one click installs. Thanks Dreamhost
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| Dave | 22 Sep 07 |
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I've been with dreamhost for one year now and have rated is a pretty good. Support is excellent, emergency tickets get replied to in under 15 minutes for me and others less than 1 hour. Support is very helpful, server problems are posted on their dreamhoststatus.com website and updated around the clock. Dreamhost is one of the few hosts that publicly posts server problems, eta, and lets you know what's happening. I've used 1TB out of the 1.4tb of bandwidth I have with them with no problem, I've even used 50GB of space with no problem. they oversell, but they do it right. they don't close your account for resource abuse unless its really intensive scrips and programs. They even said i could use my storage space to store my photo collection (family photos). Uptime has been okay. I've had about 99.6% uptime with them which isn't bad, but it isn't great either. they use a super cool in-house control panel which is easy to use and have 1-click installs for major programs. So far I've been happy with dreamhost. but I would not recommend it for medium size-large size businesses. for personal, small business and storage, its great!
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| HomeSlice | 31 Jul 07 |
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I've been with Dreamhost about two years. I have a couple of domains hosed with them, all on shared servers. I have nothing but good things to say about them. Last I checked, there were only 18 other sites hosted on the same server as mine. They support php5 and all the php extensions I need. I can create MySQL databases myself through the control panel without "authorization". I can add additional TLD's at no extra cost. My webmail is a Lot easier to get to than it is on other hosts using CPanel. I've read several reviews here about all the down time they experience. I can't argue with someone else's experience, but I haven't experienced but a handful of hiccups in the past two years. I'm not paying for business or dedicated hosting, so I have no complaints about that.
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| Me | 22 Jun 07 |
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I have been with DH almost 6 months Simply: Great Control panel, features, price, Too much downtime and server maintenance. If you need a stable host go elsewhere..
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| AJ Kirwin | 19 Jun 07 |
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I find DreamHost has a good blend of price, features and reliability. For what I pay, I get a lot and to me, this is a good thing. When there are downtimes, they are usually for good reason.
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| Mike Andrew | 22 May 07 |
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yeah, they are OK. For the money i give them every year, they are like great. Unfortunately, i too had some problems with up time on my sites, and this is a very bad point. You can't really have a site that my go down any time for a longer or shorter period of time. Their support was great every time i had problems, and that's also a plus. Overall, a good host.
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| Christopher Smith | 17 May 07 |
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I have mixed views regarding Dreamhost, I do believe they are trying to provide what they advertise but they fall short. The price is very cheap and setup very quick, the control panel is different but houses loads of features and after a while is really easy to use. I signed up two months ago and whilst the price seems to be right the server struggled with a community forum I host. Then the downtime hit, almost every day for two weeks the sites were down at least once a day and FTP was a nightmare (Appeared to be an issue with a file server but took two weeks before they spotted it). It seems to be ok at the moment but still very slow. One thing really did annoy me, about a week ago they deleted some files off one of my sites rendering the frontpage blank losing possibly hundreds of pageviews, they made no attempt to contact myself which is really rude. I think the pages were being spammed by spambots which may have caused some issues but come on I should be told "we have removed this because of blah blah blah". I think I may leave my small personal site on dreamhost but I would not recommend anything like a complex bbs board like SMF be hosted on Dreamhost.
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| Jared | 26 Mar 07 |
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This host has been great for the first few years I was with them, then everything turned horribly wrong. I do not know if it is thanks to them switching my web server, or what, but I've had HORRIBLE uptime. Besides uptime, the features are OK, but they are pretty much overselling, which is horrible for good hosts to succeed, which in my opinion, Dreamhost is not. At first, when I signed up for Dreamhost, I noticed their incredibly low prices and excellent features, but as my sites grew, they demanded more, and Dreamhost just could not handle them, thanks to their overselling. Overall, if you want a host with excellent pricing and features, Dreamhost is what you want. On the other hand, you'll have to sacrifice uptime and slowness because of the overselling, unfortunately.
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| FBD | 19 Dec 06 |
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The good: Huge storage and bandwidth for the cost. Their cPanel replacement is much more geek friendly. The bad: Support can be terrible. 48+ hours to receive a response is common, even for simple things. God forbid you have an actual problem. It can sometime take 5-6 rounds of emails to get a severe problem resolved. With their lag in e-mail responses, it took 2 weeks to resolve a bandwidth issue that turned out to be a hardware problem on their end, even when I provided them with a detailed diagnosis.
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| kookoo | 9 Dec 06 |
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so far its excellent. the user interface is actually a dream for techies, I've been with many hosting companies over the last ten years, dropping in and out with my interest in websites. Recently I wanted to do a community site and chose dreamhost after a two-week nightmare with godaddy, and I'm very impressed with how this thing is organized (definitely for the customer). At this point I haven't had a highly visited site so I can't say how well it would take that load. Last night I didn't noticed a slight slowdown but i guess thats a given with shared hosting. they've recently started dedicated hosting, which I was definitely interested in until i read that mysql would still be shared. Oh well, hopefully they will change this.
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| martin | 6 Dec 06 |
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I got Dreamhost June of this year for my personal website. I used around 500 megabyte of bandwidth a month and used around 10 MB of disk space. Anyways, the past 2 months, the personal site became big and I also host other sites and other big files. Now I use around 12 GIGS of bandwidth per month and still am running strong with 99.93 uptime! Support: Tickets usually gets answered in 24 - 30 hours and I am fine by this. Performance. Uptime has been rock solid! Web page loads fast and my visitors do not complain. SSI - I mainly use CGI and PHP, with mySQL - works like a charm Dreamhost is PERFECT for just storing a bandwidth heavy STATIC website. If your hosting something mission critical, do not choose dreamhost, however if you use up a lot of bandwidth, dreamhost is great!
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| John | 13 Sep 06 |
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I love this host! After a few bad hosts, I switched to Dreamhost on a whim. Best choice I've ever made. They have a great web panel with tons of neat, easy to use tools, installers and whatever. You get tons of everything. I don't know about you, but I can't move a terabyte of bandwidth a month, nor can I readily fill 23 Gb of drive space with web-apps. They support a plethora of languages, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, and have tons of other cool things like CVS and Subversion repos, personal Jabber IM servers, shell accounts, cron jobs, etc. Every hosting plan has most of the features, and the small ones only don't have things you probably wouldn't care about (who needs Miva Merchant or SSL for their personal site?) Another great thing is the one-click installs, which let you drop in good scripts, like MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla and Menalto's Gallery. I've had good experiences with their support, which is prompt. They also have a good community forum and wiki full of quick answers. The only problems I have had have been occasional down-times and slow periods, but these are always documented and explained on their status blog. I like a company that will at least tell you what happened to the system. The outages have never lasted too long either. Finally, they have a great newsletter and make you feel at home.
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| Eian | 12 Sep 06 |
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Dreamhost has recently been having problems, but in the 8 months I've been with them, the service has been top notch. The downtime for me was very little, and something I can deal with. The features they provide are awesome, and they really do let you use all that bandwidth and space. They provide great scripting tools such as PHP 4 and 5, Ruby on Rails, Python, CGI, FastCGI, etc.
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| Katie | 12 Jun 06 |
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DreamHost is totally fantastic. It's a little tech-y, and their 'one-click install' goodies, well, aren't. That all said, if you're either not looking to do excessively fancy things or you're moderately more adept at these sorts of thing than I am, you'll have no problems. Yay for DreamHost.
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| Ross | 2 Jun 06 |
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Great host with very friendly support. Dreamhost is changing the hosting industry for the better and I'm proud to be a customer.
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| roblimo | 28 May 06 |
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Support was cheerful and prompt, but in two weeks with DreamHost I had more outages (and cheerful excuses) than in two years with my previous shared hosting service, which I left only because they didn't have a plan with enough storage or bandwidth for some new site features I plan to add. Add Dreamhost's screwy/slow panel to the unreliability, and I gave up and moved. Got my money returned promptly, no problem. With better redunancy and connectivity (that is, reliability), DreamHost would be fine. Their people are very nice.
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| apina | 6 May 06 |
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I've been with Dreamhost for more than a year. Dreamhost is a budget host, plain and simple. They do "oversell" their servers, but have all the major services - mysql, home dirs, page serving - on separate boxes. In my opinnion, they do heck of a job in keeping their crowded servers running. That's quite far from "rock solid", but I've had no big problems. Customer support is quite slow. I've seen the "sorry, no reply for 24 hours - but we still remember you" autoreply for more times I care to remember. On the other hand, they don't usually give useless replies. Support has been friendly and competent. I like the features - and they constantly add more. Script installer and backup snapshots are among my favourites. I can give SSH access for all of my accounts - even the ones I create myself. Control panel is ok, it has all the tools I need. Some parts are excellent, some are not so good. If you're only looking bandwidth, space and price, Dreamhost is hard to beat. I wouldn't host important business websites there, though.
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| David Puett | 16 Apr 06 |
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Great hosting company with very cheap prices and incredible storage and bandwidth plans. Support phone calls and emails are always quick. The web control panel is sometimes a little slow but very powerful. The only downtime was in late '05 when half of LA lost power. Highly recommended.
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| Mikkel Breum | 11 Apr 06 |
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Everything works like a charm. The controlpanel works efficient and though its not very pretty in teerms of eyecandy, it is logical, and very udeful for developers. SSL works fine for me. The Wiki is quite extensive, and is a very usefull tool. The suport is fast. And I don't know what that with the 30 minutes witing for a passwd changee was about. I did'nt wait more than 2 min. for it to take effect. MySQL dataabaase creations are instant. Really can only recommend them, except for their email servers performance. It's really not too fast to check my IMAP accounts as it used to be over at b-one. but you do get 20Gig storage and 4000Gig bw and that grows everyday. Its a lot at such a cheap price. thumps up.
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| Justin Halsall | 30 Mar 06 |
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Great host! cheap, reliable and they support ruby on rails. They have a great wiki that enables me not to ever have to talk to customer support) and when they go down its always planned and they say so before they do it.
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| Mike | 16 Mar 06 |
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Dreamhost is a great webhosting solution, especially for the price. The control panel is excellent for web developers, though less advanced users may struggle with it. No outages for my site in the three months I've been with them. Their control panel was down for a day during scheduled maintenence, but there was a weeks notice. Support is slow but polite and efficient. On average, my tickets are probably answered in between 8-20 hours, except during emergencies (I tested their downtime system once. I got a response 3 minutes later informing me that there was no server wide problem detected.) Overall, a good host, and enjoyable to use. Not recommended for beginners.
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| Niu | 4 Mar 06 |
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I've been with Dreamhost for two years now and have never had a problem with them. They offer fantastic value for money and have a loyalty scheme whereby your bandwith and space increase every week you stay with them. One thing I would say is that the Web Panel used to administer your site can sometimes be very slow to the point of being practically at a standstill but this is very rare and my site itself has always been available and fast-loading. Also, if you're someone who uses CPanel then this is not an option but they do have their own equivalent both to this and to Fantastico.
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