Dreamhost is an award-winning WordPress host that hosts more than 1.5 million sites for 400,000+ members. They’re recognized for being one of only four web hosts that WordPress endorses, which the company credits to their straightforward one-click installation process. The platform is capable of launching cloud servers quickly and supports a range of apps including Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, and Redis.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Chromebook, Desktop Linux, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
So far, DreamHost has been a reliable service. We haven't experienced any downtime on our website. The billing and invoicing are easy to understand, and the pricing is modest. Also, I appreciate the newsletters; they always offer something new to learn (ex: webstreaming) and you get a sense of the light DreamHost company culture.
Honestly, nothing. We decided to go with DreamHost at the advice of our web designers. They praised its reliability and efficiency.
We sought out DreamHost when we were redesigning our website. We needed to find a new hosting service, and this was highly recommended by our web designers.
Dreamhost is not fancy gimmicks or overpriced. You get exactly what you pay for and they deliver. We started with their shared hosting many years ago and moved to a virtual private server, and then a dedicated server and then upgraded our dedicated server. We have not turned back. We run over 50 sites and without any issues. The support of DreamHost staff is some of the best - and though you cannot call DreamHost, their live chat and email support is better than any we have encountered (note: you can request that they call you for a charge or included with higher plans, we've never needed to use their call-back feature). They also have honest domain registration and SSL pricing.
The only problem I see with DreamHost is their free email. Their email servers are constantly having issues. I personally feel this is because they allow unlimited email for free. I think this is what creates the majority of their issues. We only run about 5 emails out of 50 sites, with none of the emails being mission critical. Searching or sorting your domains is not easy. You go through alphabetized lists. There is no way, at least not that we know of, to tie DreamHost in with WHMCS.
We need solid hosting at an honest price with great support. We get all of that and are able to pass this great service to our clients. We also use DreamHost for the majority of our domain registrations.
Their basic shared hosting product is perfect for low to mid-traffic WordPress sites. The custom service is very good. They use their own control panel, so it takes a little bit to find things, but everything works reliably at a reasonable price.
The first step in setting up MySQL access is to add a DNS entry for the MySQL server. The update to DNS should be pushed immediately; it takes a while, which breaks the flow of setting up a new site.
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Lots of language options, as well as one click installs for popular web software such as wordpress, wiki. Customer support is great, UI is well laid out and not too hard to use.
No major complaints - I had some problems deploying Ruby on Rails app. If you know your way around ssh or linux probably ok but if you are not a sys admin you may have some problems deploying a rails app.
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It is common to find it hard to accomplish basic tasks as adding a TXT record in other providers I've tried. Dreamhost does a great job trying to make these tasks accessible for a great range of users, so I have found it comfortable to work with their user interaface.
Webmail service they offer could improve the way it handles old messages in the inbox; it is common to find important emails you need to reopen archived and hard to access.
Most of my clients don't want to set up a hosting account, so I use a shared server to host their sites for a small fee. With the website manager option on the Dreamhost control panel, I can easily access any site configurations and edit DNS or more advanced stuff.
I like that DreamHost has been in business for many years and has consistently gotten high praise from web design media and user reviews. The pricing for all the main hosting plans is ridiculously low compared to many popular hosting plans at other leading hosting companies. It's nice that DreamHost offers several different web products that make our development life much easier. We can transfer files quickly and create new web content databases with just a few clicks.
The loading times for the shared hosting are usually not that bad, but since there can be lots of activity at any given time, we can often experience slower loading speeds. I think it's good that DreamHost has a web builder, but it is not really as effective and easy to use as some other web builders I've used before.
We use DreamHost for quality hosting of our websites and registration of our domain names. The pricing is awesome for our budget and we get all the primary hosting management and DNS tools we need to make necessary updates to our website, domain name and email accounts. Our website assets are critical to our business and DreamHost has been reliable in keeping them going without significant downtime.
The price for the simple shared hosting is great. The interfaces are also relatively clean, with only some of the least used features with not yet up to date UI. Customer Service is incredible.
For the services that we use, and for the price of those services, there isn't much to complain about. The outdated UI for some things that we need to do is annoying, but it's certainly not a deal-breaker.
Low cost website hosting for our web design business.
The price is right at about $10 per month; it's easy to use; they offer a lot of great features compared to other shared web hosting services; affordable domain registrations with free registration privacy
Shared web hosting in general is pretty low on performance (but you get what you pay for); it's difficult to allow multiple users to access the server - because each website is hosted under a single user, you would have to shared a single username/password to allow multiple people to access the same site on the server; they have a limited selection on top level domains to choose from for domain registrations
I currently use DreamHost to host all my websites, and it handles this quite well. I also have most of my domains registered with DreamHost since they offer free registration privacy (something I want for all my domains). My church website that I built also hosts at DreamHost, because they offer free hosting and one free domain registration ever year to any non-profit organization.
The shared hosting works good. During the 7 years I used the service it worked as expect. I kept my blog there and it was really easy to create and maintain an wordpress instance. Some of the security upgrades were applied without any intervention from my side.
Sometimes my blog was out of service. This is a common problem of shared environments, called "the bad neighbor problem" and I was used to it.
I wanted to create my portfolio and write technical posts about my job and career. Dreamhost helped me to not take too much time to have the infrastructure to get the job done.
Not only is hosting affordable, their customer service is insanely awesome. They go so far out of their way to help you. Twice my website got messed up m by my own doing and general lack of web knowledge, and even though it had nothing to do with the hosting - they went ahead and fixed my coding!
Price increases after the first year's promotional price but the cost is still a good value.
Unlimited web hosting across my several sites for one yearly fee, hosted emails, and easy domain renewal
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.
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.
They are really passionate about hosting websites. Every week, i would wait for their weekly newsletter just to know what the next new feature is. I have hosting account on 4 companies and dream host was the first to add Let's encrypt free ssl implemented inside the account panel. They also provided free Privacy add on on each domain. above all that, they have great and fast support.
Although they brag a lot about their in house custom made control panel. Which is really easy and well organized. But I am a C-panel fan, and i would like to have the option to use c-panel on my account.
They provide premium hosting solution and they realy like doing their job. They are one the best candidates for startups. Especially because they have numerous promo codes that would give you up to 85% discount on the first year, just google it.
They are easy to use, good support and uptime has been consistently good.
I have had some issues with slow loading on one particular site. It seems to be related to the actual server it is living on, but we haven't been able to resolve it yet.
I host all of my own sites and most of my clients' sites on Dreamhost.
Dreamhost is an outstanding hosting service that offers a variety of products that fulfill amost every need. From shared hosting to cloud servers it delivers easy to setup enviroments and config tools that will truly make dream come true. We specially like the vps and their pricing, we can't complain about the uptime and quality of service.
Nothing to dislike with dreamhost, very satisfied with the service
Shared hosting, cloud computing, virtual private servers. Easy to setup ssh credentials and mail management.
DreamHost is a great inexpensive solution for shared hosting. They offer VPS services for more advanced needs. Their control panel is simple to use. They have the ability to run Passenger for support of Ruby, Python, and NodeJS sites. Their one-click installs work great for clients with simple needs. Email hosting is solid and does a good job of eliminating spam. Support for LetsEncrypt SSL certificates is a great way to deploy SSL across the board for no additional cost.
I've never had a real complaint with DreamHost while using them.
I use DreamHost has a hosting provider for some of my clients. For many of my clients the cost and features are in the sweetspot for their needs.