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Review by mediahound 
UPDATED: 46 days ago
member for 234 days, 18 visits, last login: 9 days ago
 Richmond,Contra Costa,CA
 $5 per month
 about 1 days
 "Tons of storage and bandwidth for the price, reliable service"
 "No free phone support"
 "Dreamhost provides great service for the price which is why they are so popular"
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Dreamhost seems to get some bad reviews from time to time but whenever they have had any problems, they have always fixed them quickly and communicated with their customers in a very transparent, honest way. Most other hosting companies do not do this.
I have had no issues with their service and my WordPress powered website has not been down ever that I can tell, and it seems to run fast as well. While you cannot phone customer support, they have always responded to my emails within an hour. And, they are a 'green' carbon neutral company, which I like.
I really like their control panel (I can even control my own CNAME DNS settings, something that few other hosting companies allow-you usually have to open a ticket and have them do that for you).
DreamHost offers a really good deal especially if you get a coupon code from a current customer for a discount. This is another positive-you can create your own referral codes and make some money that way which is nice. And, they don't advertise on your pages in any way. Some hosting companies will put ads on your 404 error pages (like Hostgator and others).
DreamHost's servers are in the same colocation building as MediaTemple, btw.
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 Review by AMailer
UPDATED: 216 days ago
member for 4.5 years, 833 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Burlington,ON
$8 per month (24 month contract)
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
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 Review by Gungerdin
UPDATED: 273 days ago
member for 2.8 years, 1711 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Bellmore,Nassau,NY
$10 per month (12 month contract)
"Great Service"
"none"
"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.
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Review by TheMG
Posted: 364 days ago
member for 1.1 years, 437 visits, last login: 1 days ago
Edmonton,AB
$9 per month (12 month contract)
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.
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Review by jimbo2150
UPDATED: 1.1 years ago
member for 4.4 years, 986 visits, last login: 1 days ago
Youngstown,Mahoning,OH
$7 per month (12 month contract)
about 1 days
"Great personal value hosting!"
"A bit slower than others, some downtime a possibilty"
"For personal sites / startup business it is an excellent deal!"
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I would not reccomend this to a larger business due to higher risk of downtime and no dedicated servers. But for the average Joe looking to set up a personal site/blog, the local entrepreneur, or the techie out there this is an excellent deal for those just starting out or who don't need much. They oversell their hosting packages with a lot of bandwidth and disk space (more than most will ever need). It is low-cost compared to many hosting companies, the tech support is fast and polite, and a lot of included features. Being honest and straight-forward about everything from upgrades to feature additions to network or server issues is the least of which many other companies simply do not offer. For those with small / growing businesses or those looking for their own space to run other programs (maybe a game server?), they are currently beta testing virtual private servers. I have used them for over a year now and have not had any major issues and suggest it to anyone looking for a little web space.
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Review by kd6cae
Posted: 1.1 years ago
member for 7.1 years, 2352 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Riverside,Riverside,CA
$7 per month (12 month contract)
about 1 days
"tons and tons of space great for backup use"
"shared hosting, not dedicated"
"Dreamhost as a web hosting provider is nothing short of amazing. If you want tons of space, these guys are for you"
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I signed up with DreamHost in late 2006, and have been fairly happy with them. They're a perfect web host for even just backing up files, as they give you dedicated server-like storage and bandwidth. You also get a linux shell account so you can do things that way if desired. For a shared web host, they are just plain amazing.
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 Review by Gbcue
Posted: 2.4 years ago
member for 7 years, 3809 visits, last login: a few hours ago
Santa Rosa,Sonoma,CA
$1 per month (12 month contract)
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 clunk, as they have it programmed in-house, and it is often slow.
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