DreamHost Reviews & Product Details

Lower costs, amazing support, easy to set up, domain name included in hosting plan. Simple one click install of Wordpress, Joomla, and other web applications

Uptime was not as good as other hosts I've used. It wasn't necessarily bad but not perfect either.

Dreamhost is a lower cost web hosting that offers reliable services.

Unlike other hosting companies, when you host with DreamHost, you also get one free domain which is a little icing on the cake.

I haven't ran into to many problems, but I have limited experience with their support.

I use DreamHost for my business and my clients so we have a reliable hosting network to depend on to keep our sites running.

Value for money is high; the standard package includes unlimited disk space, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited domain slots, and very generous bandwidth. A decent selection of one-click-install applications is also available, and they work well, with minimal configuration and automatic updates. Setting up mailboxes is fairly easy, as is setting up SSH and FTP access for multiple users. Adding a new domain is quick and painless. Recently, they have added two-factor authentication for extra safety.

In the last few years, the prices have gone up a bit and, while there's still good value for money, it could be cheaper. Another thing that is missing in this modern world is support for technologies besides PHP, most notably NodeJS and MongoDB (or any no-SQL database, for that matter). The webmail interfaces could also do with a little bit of a touch-up.

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The website migration team was super responsive, fast, and comprehensive. While we had some confusion and questions on our end, they were able to resolve everything no problem. Very happy with our experience so far and looking forward to our continued experience with DreamHost. The live customer support chat option combined with the price structure options is perfect for our small business' website.

I understand why, but it would be nice to be able to schedule a virtual call to coordinate with the support teams. We did have a bit of back and forth because of our lack of knowledge. While the issue was eventually resolved, it would have made the process more streamlined.

Cost.

The best part about DreamHost is Nusrat. Muskan was also helpful with creating links to my graphics. Nusrat was very patient with me and helped me understand.

The most cumbersome for me was the initial part of trying to decide if I could build my own website or whether I needed help. It took a while to get connected to Nusrat. But once I did, she was GREAT!

I needed a website to help parents and teachers get information for my recently released historical fiction about the Oregon Trail. Nusrat helped me create a good, easy to navigate website. On the question above, I don't know if I have managed hosting. That wasn't explained when I signed up. I am pretty much clueless. That's why I needed help.

Customer service. Their willingness to help.

My website is being attacked too often. We are working on it

Helped me to return my hacked site, and deleted all the hacked files. Now I am able to use the website againe

Dreamhost has one of the best support I have seen in any host, they are always happy to help even when it is clearly not their issue. They definitely have a help the client above all else support mentality that I wish more companies had. They also have a great one click deployment tool for a wide range of open-source web applications.

Their control panel has random bugs and issues, sometimes you can make a DNS o change without it reverting, other times if you change hosting type things get funky till you contact support. DNS propagation is buggy enough that they made a button for you to force it to fix itself.

Inexpensive web hosting for files, data, and smaller websites.

I'm Dreamhost customer since 2006, I started with shared hosting and VPS customer later, actually I'm using mostly DreamObjects service and the cost and benefits are great.

I have VPS since many years ago and the specifications are unlimited in storage, now if you want a new VPS the storage is limited.

Few years ago DreamHost was one of the best options in the market, now the offer is better and DreamHost is offering cloud services (DreamCompute and DreamObjects), now I have a VPS and DreamObjects service, and this last one is just great.

My favorite part about dreamhost is that for one low price you can host an unlimited amount of domains. Their pricing is never more than ten dollars a month and everything is unlimited. You can get unlimited domains with unlimited emails so I host all my websites on their services because you can't beat their pricing unless you are offering a lower quality service. I have tried other hosting sites and so far this one has been the most effective for my websites.

A lot of the other hosting sites you can call and will be put on hold but can talk to a customer service representative. In dreamhost's case they only offer chat support, which you also have to wait for. And they are not 24 hours, they are on the east coast and hold those business hours and aren't available for chatting during non business hours and also weekends, which is terrible if you run into technical issues. They have a website that explains a lot but if you aren't too savvy you won't understand a lot of the technical jargon. So that means you have to email them and wait for support which might take a bit depending on when you email and their business hours.

All my clients are happy with their websites and hardly run into any snags. They love the ability to create emails for their employees and not being charged a lot since I forward what I save onto them.

Dreamhost was easy to get up and running, and provides great value for VPS hosting. When comparing storage, processors, RAM and features, Dreamhost stood out among the competition. Free SSL certificate and competitive domain registration prices are also a plus.

The user interface could use some streamlining, and sometimes when working with various aspects like managing your user account, you're sent to page that looks like it's straight out of 1998. If you're into web nostalgia, you'd love it! Also, my developers often lament that Dreamhost uses a proprietary control panel rather than CPanel.

Fast VPS hosting for multiple Wordpress/Woocommerce sites with plentiful storage at a great value.