I recommend you guys to not use this host they really are bad host ever seen on internet

I switched over to DreamHost from NoMonthlyFees and have never looked back. I've yet to see better pricing. The DreamHost staff is competent and friendly. The custom control panel is superlative, and they offer more features than you can shake a stick at! Using DreamHost makes a managed web hosting plan not only attractive but enjoyable. If you're looking for a host and don't need dedicated hosting, look no further than DreamHost!

I've been with DH for nearly 9 years with various plans, they were definitely one of best hosting company out there back then. I appreciate their constant upgrades and updates, but the past few years they have been plagued by many downtimes. I truly hope they get back on track in their reliability, but as of now I am quite tempted to switch.

I switched from a host that was constantly getting hacked and making server upgrades without notifying me or other customers. Dreamhost is great for the single reason that they almost always give prior warning before doing any updates or upgrades to servers. Plus, their customer support is usually very quick. In most cases I get a response within 45 minutes. My old host would take days sometimes. I believe I still have some open support tickets with my old host, which is sad, since I closed my account a few months ago.

Overall Dreamhost is amazing. Good prices, quick and intelligent support, and a good amount of control over the servers I am hosting on. I give them a 10 all around. I've seen a little bit of downtime here and there, but I've always have fair warning.

Dreamhost was great until early summer 2006. Then the problems started for real. Power outages in their data center revealed the fragility of their network. Sites were down for hours or days. Mail was slow or unreliable.

Fast forward to February 2007. A PLANNED power outage in the same building led to hours more downtime than expected. Dreamhost posted an announcement on their blog but did not mail customers.

Reliability -- the most important factor in choosing a web host (after price, for most people) -- has suffered greatly in the past year. I cannot recommend Dreamhost as of early 2007.

A lot of people tend to get over emotional after having a bad experience and start writing really bad comments or vice versa based on their experience.

I would however like to present a hopefully helpful review of this host for everyone to decide upon.

I have had my hosting account with Dreamhost.com for the past 2 years on their basic shared hosting plan which has been more than sufficient. I have hosted several websites, both live as well as test sites.

The Pros of this host are undeniably the huge amount of webspace that you get and the amount of bandwidth and unlimited SQL databases, subdomains and domains. This was extremely helpful for me since I was able to set up multiple websites with ease, each using its own database. It also allowed me to be able to test differen free scripts from around the net with ease.

Another good feature is the one click installs available which allow you to install popular web scripts with ease. Apart from this they offer streaming media options from your server and also allow you to be in full control of you DNS and MX (mail server) settings.

As far as the cons are concerned, there is quite a bit of downtime at different intervals. Dont get me wrong, its not like they are down all the time. But to give you an estimate, in a period of 6 months, expect atleast 3 to 4 days of downtime in total. Various reasons including power outages, attacks on servers, hardware failure are presented as the excuses. Overall it is not as bad as one would expect really, but it can be pretty frustrating at times. Especially when it coincides with the launch of a new site or produce on your website.

The customer support is over all OK. It takes up to a day for them to reply in most cases but you can expect an occaisional reply within the hour. But over all they do reply every single ticket and in majority cases present you with the solution. They also offer a support forum where you can ask questions. All that being said, I would also like to say that one of my queries was never solved however, in which case their reply was simply that they cannot figure it out at all. I let it go eventually because atleast they were honest about it. One thing I will say is that they are honest in their replies to you and dont make stuff up just to cover up.

Anyways, My over all rating for dreamhost is: Good

I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good cheap host offering tonnes of features, space, bandwidth and databses.

Lastly I will just say that I intend to move hosts from dreamhost, but this is not beause I dont like them. But it is because my website has grown considerably and now requires a VPS server. So since dreamhost no longer offers VPS, I have to shift :)

Looks like dreamhost is a bit a hit or miss. Can't say for the others, but for me it was a terrific hit: Been using them for 5 months, ended up using 850 gigs/month, not one problem! Well maybe the forums were down once or twice...

Server response was pretty fast on average and download speed was terrific! 10 MB/sec!

Questions get answered in about 24 hours which is ok in my experience.

Been with Dreamhost for over 3 years. Always quick responses on any techical issues I had, ususally within 2 hours response. What they offer with their plans is incredible and the web panel is so user friendly. No restrictions. I know they had some issues lately but they keep everyone informed.

We just launched our company website on Dreamhost.com last week. I can safely say that over 50% of my attempts to visit our site www.acsdish.com were unsuccessful. This is due to the overwhelming site outages at all hours of day. Our site is a commerce driven site. Every minute/day of downtime equates to many lost sales. If you are looking to start an e-com business, I would recommend looking elsewhere. The amount of problems in the past week is not only costly, but also embarrassing when you invite all of your industry colleagues to visit your site and have it down. Go figure. Dreamhost.com should consider changing their name to Nightmarehost.com.

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.