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yangyang · Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 44

Sorry for the previous spam I created. Was being silly. Now that I've been with DreamHost for nearly 2 years. I thought it might be nice to share with you something about this company.

DreamHost is a rather old hosting company started back in 1997. All sound and good until its user base grows exponentially, like every other big hosting companies targeted at low budget buyers, it's becoming more and more incompetent in serving consistently, especially on shared plans. There are always one or two users whose websites are suffering from some chaos or network glitches.

Last 2 months I have experienced 2 down times approx 3 - 4 hours in total, working out a uptime of 99.7%.

But on the other hand, their price well justify the hosting service they are offering. Big big storage and monthly transfer, industry-unique proprietary web control panel that's incredibly easy to use, coming with hundreds of different options.

They are also open to criticism with a public client discussion forum and an emergency blog publishing all current issues of their hosting servers for all to know.

Average customer service response time is between 10 minutes to 3 hours.

I'd give them 8/10 for overall performance against the price.

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maahiwilson · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 9 Location: u.k

Hello
I’ve been DreamHost since 2006 and that’s more than 3 years of hosting experience with them on a shared plan ($9.95 / month). For those who’d prefer scanning instead of reading, I’ll sum up my points in short lists:
Pros

1. Affordable price with generous offerings in disk storage and monthly transfer.
2. Full pack of features – everything you can imagine for LAMP websites, they are there for you to access.
3. 10 years of operating their own servers makes them extremely technical and the support is always to the point by knowledgeable staff.
4. Proprietary control panel enables you to do everything without a hassle. Could be a Con though, as it’s too easy to use and somewhat addictive, once you get used to it, you’d be reluctant to switch.
5. A lot of features are only found on DreamHost such as control panel API, Google Apps (I love it!), Jabber IM, Media Streaming and much more that are all automated and even a novice hoster can take advantage of.
6. Open discussion forums.
7. Very well documented wiki specifically for their users with detailed instructions to do everything.

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