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Worst Host
posted on Jan 05, 2008 by HiddenUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: Hidden
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jan 05, 2008): Hidden
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
Easily, by far, the worst web hosting company on the internet right now.
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Meh...
posted on Sep 21, 2007 by keithUser email: Hidden
Web site: n/a
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Sep 21, 2007): N/A
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 7
Webhost Technical quality rating: 6
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 8
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 7
They were good for a while and luckily for us they began tanking some of their email features right as our 2 year deal was ending. I will be moving elsewhere.
cons: e-mail downtime and no free anonymous ftp support. (they just recently added PAID anon. FTP)
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Very satisfied with it for our professional science and engineering firm
posted on Jul 19, 2007 by GrantUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: 3 months - 1 year
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jul 19, 2007): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 9
Webhost Technical quality rating: 10
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 10
A friend and colleague of mine convinced our small firm to begin using Dreamhost for our website hosting. Before that, we'd been using a local contractor who handles our network administration, so we had a little trepidation about using a company all the way in Los Angeles. But so far, we've been really very happy. We don't mind only using email for most of our support questions, the inside control panel is very user-friendly for newbies, but there's a lot of wiggle room to improve a site and do more powerful things, once you begin learning more about back-end programming. We've had very little down-time so far, and think the blog and monthly newsletter are actually funny, as well as informative.
We were also very happy with the discounted rate we were able to get (my colleague gave us the affliate code "HOUSTONSPACE" - apparently users can refer people and give them around $100 off their service fees, in return for free hosting), so our first year of hosting was incredibly cheap. I think depending on the service, if you use one of those codes, you can get it down to around 20 bucks for the first year.
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Overselling
posted on Jun 25, 2007 by meUser email: Hidden
Web site: www.ertekelem.hu
Used the services of DreamHost for: 3 months - 1 year
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jun 25, 2007): 3 months - 1 year ago
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 4
Webhost Technical quality rating: 4
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 3
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 5
Dreamhost, offers more than what it can deliver. My site has 100 visitors per day and I had to contact support weekly as the site was going down for various reasons "Some other site was overloading the server" this is a regular excuse . No uptime garantee , I thought it is not important but my site was down almost weekly..
If you are looking for a stable hosting dont come here..
After 5 months of suffering I decided I take my site elsewhere..
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worst host
posted on Jun 17, 2007 by Billah BhaiUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: Hidden
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jun 17, 2007): N/A
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 recommend you guys to not use this host they really are bad host ever seen on internet
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Awesome Host
posted on Jun 07, 2007 by Chaz LeverUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Jun 07, 2007): 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 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!
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Decline
posted on May 24, 2007 by CowUser email: Hidden
Web site: Hidden
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of May 24, 2007): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 6
Webhost Technical quality rating: 6
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 8
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 7
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.
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Best service that I've seen yet
posted on May 16, 2007 by NickUser email: Hidden
Web site: http://essenceofperfume.com
Used the services of DreamHost for: 3 months - 1 year
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of May 16, 2007): 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 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.
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Downward spiral
posted on Mar 05, 2007 by neurophyreUser email: n/a
Web site: n/a
Used the services of DreamHost for: over 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Mar 05, 2007): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 5
Webhost Technical quality rating: 5
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 8
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 7
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.
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A good host
posted on Feb 25, 2007 by AkbarUser email: Hidden
Web site: www.path-to-peace.com
Used the services of DreamHost for: 1 year - 3 years
Date when last hosted by DreamHost (as of Feb 25, 2007): Current customer
DreamHost Web Hosting Plan used: Hidden
Customer support rating: 7
Webhost Technical quality rating: 6
DreamHost Web hosting services Cost/Value rating: 10
Web hosting provider Overall rating: 7
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 :)
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