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Review by Geekball See Profile

  • Location: UK
  • Cost: $10 per month (12 month contract)
Fantastic control panel, friendly approach
Has had some issues lately
Pretty good, easy to use,
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Overall pretty pleased with these guys, some good deals. Not the cheapest but that's not always best. Support can be a little slow but usually get you what you need. Love their friendly/informal approach, their newsletters can be hilarious.

Lately there have been a few issues but I've not really noticed them and they have been dealt with quickly and with good communication to the customer.

member for 20.2 years, 1909 visits, last login: 2.5 years ago
lodged 12.1 years ago


Review by AMailer See Profile

  • Location: Burlington, ON, Canada
  • Cost: $8 per month (24 month contract)
  • Install: about 1 days
Great control panel, cheap, ton of space and bandwidth
I wish they expanded into ventrilo hosting :P hehe
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This is an excellent host, It was recommended by the guys at compsci.ca who had been using it for a couple of years. Along with the discount coupon they provided, the price was ridiculous cheap for great service and a great plan that came with ssh access too

The control is so amazing that I wish they provided hosting for other services too, like ventrilo :P

(Update June 1st, 2011)
Its been a while since my initial review however I have had to work with DreamHost again for a client of mine and I can't say it has been the BEST experience, however I can't say that they could do much in any case.

My client had a high volume site but he wanted a cheap hosting so he went with DreamHost. Setup and payment was perfect and everything went smoothly. However it seems that DreamHost really can't take much of a load and there isn't much you can do to tweak any settings (it is a shared host after all).

Another thing I did not like was the fact that they did not allow us to set TTL's for our DNS records, really comes in handy during moves... Other than that however its good all good.

member for 19.9 years, 3778 visits, last login: 5 years ago
updated 12.8 years ago


Review by jimmsta See Profile

  • Location: Belle Mead, Somerset, NJ, USA
  • Cost: $9 per month (48 month contract)
Low monthly rate, affiliate coupons
Overadvertised bandwidth, disk space, and uptime. Charged all users 1 year ahead of time without consent from customers.
4 years of sub-par service, email outages and billing problems. Stay away.
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I was sold on the claims of unlimited bandwidth and space, but unglued when their support team told me that my account would be suspended due to high transfer bandwidth use, I was no longer believing their bull. Then after they had a billing snafu, and charged everyone that had a credit card on file the next year's dues, I was awestruck. (Luckily, I had set my settings to NOT auto-bill). I stayed with them, hoping that they'd get a reality check and become a better host, but after having their email services go down on a business account for a week, I was fed up with them. I've moved on to greener pastures (HostGator!). The control panel software was also very buggy and required more work to get users and email accounts setup than was necessary.

member for 21.3 years, 801 visits, last login: 64 days ago
updated 14.7 years ago


Review by Gbcue See Profile

  • Location: Santa Rosa, Sonoma, CA, USA
  • Cost: $9 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 1 days
Excellent value, tons of space
Slow Panel Configuration
Great if you know how to do stuff with the shell, Telnet, etc.
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They are very good on the value, giving users tons of space and an increasing amount of bandwidth per month.

Their control panel is now very speedy. The one-click installs are good but the upgrades break my settings so I rarely upgrade.

member for 22.5 years, 12473 visits, last login: a few hours ago
updated 14.7 years ago







Review by ChromeJob See Profile

  • Location: Durham, Durham, NC, USA
  • Cost: $7 per month (24 month contract)
  • Install: about 1 days
Great services, great update communications,
A nice reliable domain host which I trust
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I've hosted my two domains on Dreamhost for 5 years or so, and their value has been impeccable. By paying in advance for two years, I get a great monthly rate on generous e-mail box allowances, web services, shell access, etc. I don't operate a business or busy community site, but if I did it would be easy to setup and manage. Though your package may vary, since I joined them in 2004, and have voluntarily moved to new servers, I have unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited users, unlimited mailboxes. They have status updates on outages and changes on a Wiki, and an RSS feed, and the channel is very busy, always getting updates.

These folks work hard to earn and keep business. I heartily recommend them. PM me if you'd like a discount code.

member for 20.4 years, 227 visits, last login: 2.7 years ago
updated 14.9 years ago


Review by EnronRocks See Profile

  • Location: Murphysboro, Jackson, IL, USA
  • Business customer Business customer
  • Cost: $9 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 1 days
Uptime, Space, Bandwidth, Support, Price, Features
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I love DreamHost!
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I have been through my fair share of hosts, and have finally found one that I will use until either of us die. My DreamHost website have been up and running since 2005, and have seen very little to no downtime. DreamHost offers amazing space and bandwidth at and absolutely unbeatable price! Although you will never use the space and bandwidth unless you are doing something illegal. They have absolutely amazing uptime, and they do Not over sell their boxes. My DreamHost box has around 30 other websites on it, 15 of them being my own. GoDaddy and other hosts put over a thousand sites per box. Although DreamHost is known for email problems, we have seen very little email downtime, and very little downtime at all in that case. I recommend DreamHost to anyone and everyone I know. They are truly unbeatable for the price.

member for 14.9 years, 14 visits, last login: 7.1 years ago
lodged 14.9 years ago


Review by JoeIac See Profile

  • Location: Reading, Middlesex, MA, USA
  • Cost: $5 per month (24 month contract)
  • Install: about 3 days
Cheap WebHost, new plans offer unlimited disk and bandwidth usage
Occasional outages, and other minor glitches
if you need a cheap home webhost, and dont want to spend too much money, dreamhost is an excellent choice.
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I've been a dreamhost subscriber for over a year now, and overall have been satisfied, though i do have to say that the outages are certainly inconvenient. The major problem anyone would identify with dreamhost are the outages which are prone to popping up at random, potentially lasting as many as 2 days.

Overall i recommend dreamhost for home users, and people who want a webhost for themselves or a non-critical website. If you cannot afford to have your site go down, ever, then you should pay more for a more reliable webhost.

member for 15 years, 5141 visits, last login: 4 days ago
lodged 15 years ago


Review by mediahound See Profile

  • Location: Richmond, Contra Costa, CA, USA
  • Cost: $5 per month
  • Install: about 1 days
Tons of storage and bandwidth for the price, generous referral program
Uptime not reliable, no phone or live chat support
Dreamhost ended up being too unreliable and slow to stay with
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Dreamhost seems good at first but I ended up leaving before their 97 day trial full refund period was up. My site would go down regularly due to the server been locked up or overloaded. Emailing customer support was usually quick, but they would just reboot the server without fixing the problem.

When it was working, my site didn't load very fast either.

I've since switched to Hostgator and am much happier both in terms of uptime and WordPress load speed. It's about the same price too.


member for 16.1 years, 200 visits, last login: 2.7 years ago
updated 15.4 years ago


Review by Gunga Din See Profile

  • Location: Bellmore, Nassau, NY, USA
  • Cost: $10 per month (12 month contract)
Great Service
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good price - good service
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After looking for a new host I came across Dreamhost while they were running their 10 year anniversary special that included 500GB of shared space along with 5TB of bandwidth per month. Each week your space grows by 2GB and 40Gb of bandwidth, all this ended up costing me $10 for the year with the $119 anniversary price break! At this price it was a no brainer but I was not sure how a west coast service might pan out connection wise being that I living in NY. Their support staff are some of the coolest people I have come across and they answer your inquiries and fix problems extremely fast. So far them being on the west coast is a non issue as far as speed is concerned. Their control panel is in home built and works just fine. If all stays the same I will continue with them next year for their current price of $120 a year.

member for 18.2 years, 5403 visits, last login: 1.5 years ago
updated 16.2 years ago


Review by TheMG See Profile

  • Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • Cost: $9 per month (12 month contract)
  • Install: about 1 days
Plenty of bandwidth and storage, cheap.
Can be a little slow at times.
Great for small business, communities or personal web sites.
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Includes all the standard web server features such as PHP, MySQL database, CGI, etc. Plenty of bandwidth, storage. and email accounts. They do domain name registration/hosting as well. For such a low price, it's almost too good to be true (keyword: almost).

Has been doing fine for our gaming community website for nearly 3 years now. There has been the occasional downtime but when it happens it gets fixed pretty quickly. I would estimate we have had the equivalent of 30 minutes of downtime per month. Really not that bad. Other than that it can slow down a bit at times, probably the MySQL server getting taxed so loading forum pages for example can take a few seconds, never more than about 10 seconds for a page at the worst times. Download speeds have always remained within acceptable broadband speeds, so nothing to complain about here.

Overall, very good value for the money. I have yet to see another web host offer superior value. Highly recommended.

member for 16.5 years, 4550 visits, last login: 2.7 years ago
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