The webspace, bandwith and additional features this host offers for the pice are quite outstanding. However, you should note that such low prices have to have some sort of foundation, in the case of Dreamhost it is very likely that their webspace is oversold a lot. So if you've got a site where uptime is mission critical, using this hoster probably isn't such a good idea.

It is advisable to sign up for the site with one of the many available coupons, which allows you to save money on your first bill. Without doing this, the prices won't be nearly as attractive. You could for example use the code GIGA777 when signing up to remove the setup fee for all monthly plans, and get 80$ off your first bill for yearly plans.

In addition to the high webspace and bandwith limit, Dreamhost offers some neat goodies such as Quicktime streaming, your own SVN and Jabber server, and even support for Frontpage extensions. Overall, I am quite content so far. On the one occasion that I needed it, support feedback has been quick. The panel, while it is not CPanel and a bit slow, is still easy to use and offers all crucial features decently organized.

Dreamhost may be ok for personal use, but it is far too unreliable for business use. Their servers, their routers constantly go down in the middle of the business day. So we had to get a third party web host monitoring service and send Dreamhost an email when it went down! Their response was usually like "oh we didn't even notice it was down"! We had a better idea of our site uptime than they did.

Support is bad. There's no number to call and although they have an option where you can for support to call you back (up to 5 a month), they rarely actually call back and when they do, the people on the phone have no power to do anything to correct problems in the long term. It's cheap and you get what you pay for. They received an "F" from the California Better Business Bureau.

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Outages are a real problem. Things are allegedly up and running again tonight, but my stuff still isn't working. I'm considering switching hosts, because my business can't afford to lose all of this time.

I've paid for hosting at four or five web hosts over the last few years, and all had problems. 1 & 1 was by far the last, ICDSoft was pretty OK, DreamHost has been excellent.

The bad:
They have had screwy email problems. To be honest, these haven't affected me, but I know they have affected other customers, and nothing hurts more than downed email. Again, I've heard some bad stuff (even in the reviews here), but have done a lot with DreamHost without ever running into difficulties.

The good:
I effectively have no limits. I have been able to do just about anything I want to with my space, and have hosted some giant files there reliably. If you just need a little space for a blog, a DreamHost account may be overkill (though the pricing is good enough that it need not be). But if, like me, you are hosting a handful of domains, it's great.

The support at dreamhost is lousy. If you are ok with waiting 1-4 days for a response, then go with DreamHost. I am now moving my site to a hosting provider where I get support responses in under 15 minutes 24/7.

The best thing about Dreamhost is that you have near complete control over your site(s) from the excellent control panel. It is not a dumbed-down wizard, but a fully integrated cockpit from which you can administer aspects of your site that other hosts require you to submit support requests for. You are in control with Dreamhost.

My only complaint is that I wish there was a support phone number for the rare times when I need a bit of assistance.

Great pricing, great service offerings, lousy billing, horrible email uptime. Email outages

I have had HORRIBLE support thru dreamhost for years....finally i am moving my site and my customer's sites off of there slowly.

As far as price and features go, Dreamhost is a great service. I have used them to host many domains for nearly 3 years and have been mostly satisfied. HOWEVER, a word of warning: their billing department has messed things up more than once, and they seem to be incompetent. If it were not for this, along with the fact that they offer no phone support, I would recommend Dreamhost. However, these complaints are unfortunately significant enough for me to recommend that you look somewhere else for hosting.

I have tried 3 other web host providers, none of which even came close to what dreamhost provides at the price. The only other host that comes close that I haven't used, but read about, is lunarpages. If you're looking for a well maintained professional hosting provider, go dreamhost. If you're looking for the very very best for your business, I have heard pair.com is excellent but expensive.