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Dreamhost Advice

Feb 24, 2007 5:44AM PST

I have been looking at web hosts and have found Dreamhost to offer the most for the cost. When looking at reviews, I have seen about half good and half bad. I am wondering if the community here knows anything about them that can point me in the right direction.

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DreamHost
Feb 24, 2007 7:44AM PST

I read a few reviews myself (http://www.webhostingjury.com/reviews/DreamHost) and you are right, they are mixed, there are as many bad ones as there are good ones. In my opinion, if a host is really good, they shouldn't have any bad reviews (or very very little), because even if something bad did happen, they should compensate you so you are happy. With this many bad and good reviews, I personally would stay away, but I have not tried them personally so I can't share any personal experience.

Hope this helps, and let us know what you decide on!

~Sovereign

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thanks
Feb 24, 2007 8:47PM PST

I'm hoping that I can find someone who has actually used this site. I know one person, but they don't use as much scripting as I would. In terms of what I noticed, the reviews are not as good only when talking about last summer, and it is usually newer customers. I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to do on it, but thanks for the help.

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Dreamhost is so-so
Feb 26, 2007 6:04AM PST

The reason half the reviews are good and half are bad is that it meets the needs of half the people. I signed up with Dreamhost about 2 weeks ago, and their server reliability is good if you want to host a personal site there, but if you need a web presence for your business, it's probably not good enough.

I read mixed reviews on webhostingjury.com and webhostingstuff.com, but since they offer a 97-day money-back guarantee, I decided to try it out (and there are some great coupons in the webhostingstuff reviews). I set up an uptime tracker and in 2 weeks I've had 2 downtimes, the first was for about 5 minutes, the second was a planned downtime (that they didn't warn me about) for about 5 and a half hours.

Bottom line, if you do go with them, get the coupon, get an uptime tracker and take advantage of the money-back guarantee to see if they meet your needs.

I'm currently shopping other hosts and have read better reviews for similar priced high-storage hosts (HostGator, Vexxhost, Servage), compare it to those 3 before buying (and if you don't need SSH access Lunarpages and EasyCGI look good).

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for the consideratoins
Feb 27, 2007 6:40AM PST

The coupon and 97 day money back guarantee were two of the reasons I wanted it. One of the things is I wanted the dns info hidden which brings the price up a bit for most of them. It is always good to get help though. I'll take a look at the ones you mention though. thanks.

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and if you do decide to use them
Feb 26, 2007 6:07AM PST

Subscribe to the RSS feed at dreamhoststatus.com so you get warned if they do plan on having downtime