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$9.95 / month, 500000 MB Space, 5000.0 GB transfer
DreamHost average Uptime 99.646%
Based on 2338 days of uptime monitoring of 3 web sites hosted with DreamHost
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Best Hosting Company Ever
posted on Dec 30, 2011 by TylerUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Dec 30, 2011): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Shared, VPS, Dedicated
Customer support rating: 10
Webhost Technical quality rating: 10
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 10
Not only are they amazingly priced for what they offer, they are 100% transparent regarding hardware issue and even reply back to comment on their status blog, and twitters.
They also have the best support in the industry.
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Great host!
posted on Oct 01, 2009 by HiddenUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Oct 01, 2009): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 10
Webhost Technical quality rating: 10
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 10
I'm surprised to see that the reviewers here have so many problems with DreamHost.
I've been with them since 2004, and I still am - I'm a totally satisfied customer.
Their Customer Service is amazing, so nice and helpful, even with technical things that are really not directly related to their services. And they always answer me within 24 hours, even if only to say that they need more time to resolve my issue.
They did have some downtime trouble last year, but neither before nor after have I had any major concerns with them.
So, honestly, I do not recognize much of what is being said here about them not answering emails and other negative things.
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Use them if you want some experience of what evil tastes like
posted on Aug 30, 2009 by jsUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Aug 30, 2009): Less than 3 months ago
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 3
Webhost Technical quality rating: 4
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 2
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 1
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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Worst Host Ever
posted on Nov 26, 2008 by PatrickUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: 3 months - 1 year
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Nov 26, 2008): Less than 3 months ago
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 1
Webhost Technical quality rating: 1
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 1
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 1
The worst hosting company in the HISTORY of mankind. PLEASE stay away. It only gives you headaches. They never answer your email, they never fix the problem and your website will just not work. Nothing ever works.
Did you ever want to use a hosting company and have it just, work? That's not Dream Host. Dream Host is known as Dream Disgrace. Possibly the worst hosting company on the face of this earth.
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n/a
posted on Jul 27, 2008 by PavelUser email: Hidden
Web site: qro-parts.com
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jul 27, 2008): Hidden
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 7
Webhost Technical quality rating: 7
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 3
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 4
Will be take a better web host.
Down time has every day.
Uptime is 97-98% only.
I use a host truck system: http://www.web-stat.com/?id=2526
See results: http://qro-parts.com/dream_downtime.gif
Average uptime at a last weeks is 97.43%
Not good and we will migrate from this "Dreamhost".
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Bad Host
posted on Jun 16, 2008 by HiddenUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jun 16, 2008): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 2
Webhost Technical quality rating: 5
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 3
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 5
I have been with DreamHost for seven years. I have finally had enough with their customer service. I have had an email problem that has caused me a lot of down time. I was trying to solve my issue via the internet service ticket. After 6 emails there was no solution to my problem and I was asked the same question by two technicians. It would have been nice for them to pickup the phone to answer my questions.
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Very happy with DreamHost
posted on May 23, 2008 by web-app.netUser email:
Web site: http://www.web-app.net
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of May 23, 2008): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 10
Webhost Technical quality rating: 9
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 10
We are running our Open Source, WebAPP CMS Project ( http://www.web-app.net )on DreamHost, and so are many of our users.
For what one gets for the money we have no doubt that DreamHost is number 1. You can run hundreds of sites on the server for few usd a month, not to mention the harddisk size in gigas and not in MB as in other companies..
To those of you who require more stable services, we would suggest to use DreamHost private server hosting, in which you can ajust the costs according to your or your customer budget and needs.
Promocode, we have literally been covering all hosting expenses with the DreamHost promocode ( see more on our site under "hosting").
Live support: what is all this nonsense above about DH not answering calls? Why don't you simply go here: http://irc.gnu.org/dreamhost and talk to them, there is ALWAYS someone there providing live help.
We strongly recommend DreamHost for companies, organizations and scripting projects.
WebAPP
http://www.web-app.net
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Nightmare!!
posted on Apr 08, 2008 by Jamie RectorUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Apr 08, 2008): 3 months - 1 year ago
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 1
Webhost Technical quality rating: 3
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 3
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 1
These people should be called NIGHTMARE host. They have nobody you can call when there is a problem and I find it to be a HUGE problem when they start charging me for things they shouldn't charge me for. They made several erroneous charges and they fixed two of them, but they are refusing to fix a $190 problem and have my (2) domains held hostage unless I pay them $260! What!!!??? And again... nobody to talk to.
It's a good thing these are the ones I'm building, not the ones I rely heavily on every day. I was dangerously close to that I couldn't imagine if that were the case. They are not worth the risk. There are several others that have phone number and professional customer services that will help you. These guys only have email and though they reply, they don't actually answer any of your questions and concerns. It's totally frustrating.
My review ABSOLUTELY NEGATIVE!!! STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Review about Dreamhost - They are simply Rubbish
posted on Mar 31, 2008 by ImranUser email:
Web site: www.ChaskaPoint.com
Used the services of DreamHost for: 3 months - 1 year
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Mar 31, 2008): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 1
Webhost Technical quality rating: 1
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 1
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 1
I am in web business since last 12 years and have used many companies, Dreamhost.com is simply Rubbish
If you don't believe then goto http://www.dreamhoststatus.com and check it yourself.
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Awesome bang for the buck!
posted on Mar 15, 2008 by HiddenUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Mar 15, 2008): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 7
Webhost Technical quality rating: 10
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 9
Control panel: this is not Cpanel - it's home-grown, and it's _better_.
* File organization is excellent:
/home/user/my.domain.com
/home/user/my.domain2.com
/home/user/logs/
/home/user/Maildir/
/home/user/whatever/
/home/user/rubyproject/.../preferred_public/
* Shell/ftp users: you decide, grouping specific domains to specific shell/ftp users
* Mail users: unlimited on separate server if you have lots of mail users, but you can give preferred shell users mail privileges!
* Jabber hosting, media streaming, etc.
* Assign your preferred subdomain to any mysql db - for instance - mysql.domain.com.
* Compile your own cgi php, rails, etc. if theirs doesn't suit your needs, but they offer so much, it's hard to think they couldn't.
While I've never spoken with anyone at Dreamhost, they have been courteous on the support interface.
If you know what you're doing on linux, you can do almost anything on dreamhost except run a persistent service on a shared ip - for instance, you cannot run your own voip server - very sensible limits. (You can get a private server for that.)
They have an official forum and wiki, and a customer voting schema for feature implementation. Forum members are well-informed and courteous, even with noobs like me. Wiki is amazingly complete.
They could have more solid uptime. At 99.35%, (average since 2005) it's perfect for experimental, small non-profits, small commercial ventures or personal websites where uptime is not mission-critical.
Other customers may squawk about uptime, but really - every host has some downtime. If you can't take off your spock ears and play hackeysack for an hour until they get it together, what's your deal? Manage.
I wish they had postgresql.
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