Don't Waste Your Money

I really wish Dreamhost had good hosting - their customer service is great, I love the control panel, but my sites were down so often it was ridiculous. You're much better off to go with Hostgator or something similarly priced with a decent uptime.

I actually find it hard to believe a hosting company can stay in business with that much downtime. Even their own website was down a lot when I was a customer.

Biggest Pro: Control Panel, Customer Service
Biggest Con: Constant Downtime

A great host

I have been with dreamhost for over a year now, I signed up durning a time when Dreamhost had poor reputation for up time, the reason I signed up with them was because I knew a few sites that had been running with them for a few years and the owners of those sites had said Dreamhost had a great deal going.

So I registered and sure enough they had some down time, but when my site went down I emailed and within a few hours it was running again.

But Dreamhost quickly turned it around, meaning their response time to emails are sometimes counted in minutes rather than hours and so is their fixing time.

Their prices have gone down, while their service and online time has gone up.

The uptime is great and so is the reliability, a normal month sees my site going down... never. I have had one down time in the past few months, because of a scheduled move of my cluster to another server.

Their billing would have gotten a 10 from me, but because they charged me twice for last year's bill (and fixed within 10 hours, I didn't even notice... it's the principle) they get an 8.

Biggest Pro: Customer Service, response time to queries

Dreamhost Is Great

My experience with Dreamhost has been good so far. The support team is very helpful and I've only had to send about two tickets this whole time I have been with them. The uptime is excellent but the speed of the server is a bit slow. At times it will go great but then there are those days when it is not. The prices are very reasonable, and I do believe they give you for what you pay for. Overall I think this host is great, it's not excellent but it is a good host.

Biggest Pro: uptime
Biggest Con: speed

Great Host, Just A Few Problems

Well, Dreamhost has a generally negative reputation among long time webmasters ....(this is really more for beginners-mid level webmasters) it's brilliant for everything else. They do have some extra features that really want to make you go for the plan, like jabber, however, they do lack a few features compared to cPanel (I can't exactly tell what, but you get to understand it after a while). Generally they're pretty good. ESPECIALLY if you're new or want cheap, reliable hosting. I don't think I ever experienced that much downtime. Overall, if you want every sing feature and you're a long time webmaster, Dreamhost isn't recommended, but for beginners to intermediate, it's fine.

Biggest Pro: Very flexable...
Biggest Con: Not the fastest at doing things.....some problems.....perhaps non-standard

Dreamhost and why I took it.

I am a very happy customer of Dreamhost. My websites I have hosted there are targeted for the US and so they run with very good speed. The connection to Europe is not always that fast. All in all I am very happy with the provided service. They have nice applications for 1 click install. It is also possible to share one account with multiple users you define.

Bandwith and Quota is awesome. You can't run out of it at all and the best, it is increasing continuously.

The reasion why I chose Dreamhost among others was, that they are reliable and that they support svn which is very important for dev teams.

Biggest Pro: ssh, possible to install additional software, fast support, space, bandwith

DreamHost, Pros and Cons

I am a satisfied client of Dreamhost for 3 months now.

On my whole three months of hosting with them, I have only experienced one long downtime which was two hours. Aside from that, they were up and running. They also keep a third-party hosted DreamHost status site in which they post advisories regarding downtimes.

Regarding server and connection speed, they are sort of slow but still at par to what is expected.

They also have a huge support knowledgebase wiki, which turns out to be very helpful when I ran into problems. It contains info from cron jobs, automated installs up to media streaming.

On customer service, they are quick. There was a time when I contacted support team, and got a reply in 15 minutes. Most of the time, they reply in less than 6 hours but there was one instance in which I still had to wait for 24 hours for their reply.

I got my one year hosting plan with 500GB webspace and 5.00TB bandwidth just for $22.40. The original price was $119.40 or $9.95 per month but I got a $97.00 off coupon.

Biggest Pro: They host files in different servers. Downtimes usually happen server by server.

DreamHost

Dreamhost is a great hosting provider for many reasons, but the three most poignant would have to be their uptime and reliability, their support, and their speed. Dream host is one of the fastest host that I have even been on, when you do something, it happens very quickly. They have very responsive DNS servers and all their other services update quickly. Dreamhost has never went down for me and I have been hosted for over two months. Their support is incredible, they have live chat standing by and they have a wiki filled with the answers to every question, just waiting for you to read. Even if the answer is in the wiki, they will still help you out on chat and not just tell you to read the wiki. I also like the way they do their "one-click installs" where you can install a script through the admin panel. It is done much better than fantastico does it in my experience because it gives you more control over the database and other things. I am loving Dreamhost and would gladly recommend them to someone else.

Biggest Pro: They have a wiki, makes finding things easy without bothering other people.
Biggest Con: The control panel is kind of awkward.

Dreamhost Review

I'm Extremely Happy With Dreamhost. I Would Rather Say I Found this as best Hosting for me.

Disappointed with other hosts i was searching for reviews this time and found them to be good in other sites

Planned to start hosting with them.

Im Happy Because of the following reasons :

1) Their speed servers
2) Their Fast Customer Support(Infact one guy helped me a lot. The Server load for mySQL went to 70% for my site. We had discussion on that and we were able to reduce the sql load) I would rate them A++ for Customer Support
3) Cheap Hosting
4) Latest version One Click installs
5) good Cpanel

Cant say more than this

I recommend everyone to go for this

Biggest Pro: Speed Servers, Cheap Hosting and excellent Customer Support
Biggest Con: None in particular

Awesome Service

Hi.. i am a webmaster and i own several sites but i concentrate more on my site www.exambell.com i have been maintaining the sites since last few months. i am using dreamhost service for hosting the site . I really find the service awesome and the best thing about the service is the way the site is managed. I ahve never had problems in regards to hosting and i always felt the price was a bit higher but the service is really cool. The support they provide is note worthy i remember days when they called me to fix a problem and worked for hours with phone in line

i really like DreamHost

Biggest Pro: Service
Biggest Con: Price

Dreamhost - Pretty good if your just starting out

I am about half way through my first year of Dreamhost's inexpensive "Crazy Domain Insane" program. This offers an amazing amount of features for the price they ask for. You can host unlimited domains, mysql databases, email addresses, etc. It offers one click installs of services such as wordpress, phpbb, joomla and more. They give you more disk space and bandwidth than you could even think of using.

I have only two sites hosted on this package at the moment, but plan on hosting more as time goes by. The uptime has always been good, I havn't noticed my site being down at all.

The server speed isn't a high point of the service, unless you are on one of their dedicated servers that is. It isn't bad compaired with what you are paying. You pay for what you get really.

Technical support seems to be a wiki (which I havn't really used as it is easy to figure out what to do on your own anyway). They have a support phoneline but I wouldn't like to contact them because I am not a US resident and it would cost me too much.

This all sounds good so far, but they do have one problem I would like to highlight. I don't host sites which attract huge traffic, but I hear from other users of this service that they will close your site if it is causing their server to slow down and advise you to buy a dedicated server from them which won't ever be closed down. I can understand them doing this, but then I asked myself "Why offer so much bandwidth if you shut a site down before someone can even use half of it?" and I couldn't find the answer. This seems to be their only downfall as far as I can see.

Overall I am quite happy with the service they have provided and I will stay with them until I find a better plan or have a problem. I would recomend this hosting to anyone just starting out as it is cheap and has all the features you will need (along with a lot of features you probably won't need).

Biggest Pro: You will never run out of disk space/bandwidth
Biggest Con: It seems they shut down your site if you are getting too much traffic