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12-11-2006, 11:44 AM #1New Member
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Dreamhost Review
Dreamhost Review
Firstly, i would like to say a big “thank you” to all contributing members of this board. Your insight proved invaluable when selecting a hosting company.
Following the advice posted here, my host quest began by compiling a list of features i deemed important to my needs. This boiled down to: reliability (uptime), storage space, cost, and customer service quality/options. By process of elimination i narrowed the qualifiers down to three: hostmonster, servage, and dreamhost.
The next step i took was to email each and ask fairly mundane questions to guage their knowledge and response time. Results were as follows:
1. Servage – Never responded.
2. Hostmonster – Responded in 3 days with one wrong answer.
3. Dreamhost – Responded in 10 minutes with all questions answered correctly.
As you can see, it was pretty much a no-brainer.
So, as of 10-10-06 i became a dreamhost client with a 1 year plan.
Up to this point, i have no complaints. Had to contact customer service once for a minor glitch which was solved promptly. Other than that, performance has been quite good. According to host-tracker, my uptime is 99.12% on their fanta server. All in all, a positive experience for me.
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Good luck and i hope this is of value to someone out there.
CarlosLast edited by anon-e-mouse; 12-11-2006 at 06:31 PM.
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12-11-2006, 11:47 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Welcome to WHT mrwebmeister! It's great that you did your homework and am happy with your host. For the record, can you tell us the domain your hosting with them?
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12-12-2006, 09:09 AM #3Newbie
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One thing Could you plz tell me Do DreamHost support PAYPAL payment?
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12-12-2006, 09:39 AM #4Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally Posted by mishu007
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12-12-2006, 10:48 AM #5Retired Moderator
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As you can see, it was pretty much a no-brainer.
According to host-tracker, my uptime is 99.12% on their fanta server.
All in all, a positive experience for me.
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12-12-2006, 10:53 AM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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Originally Posted by ldcdc
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12-12-2006, 10:57 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Maybe because of this ....
Wanna Fanta!
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago (October 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pm PST) by Brian
It looks like Fanta’s network interface fizzled out, so, we decided to restore it to new hardware.
All of the network configuration scripts are furiously working to restore it’s … pop … so we should have it back up and working soon! Sorry about that!
Happy-not-soo-bubbly-server-restore-team!
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2006/10/21/wanna-fanta/
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12-12-2006, 11:20 AM #8Frontend Web Developer
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Interestingly, some clients are very anal about uptime, but most are. Some people who have small website projects or just want to upload things to the web will not be the ones checking their site constantly to see if it is up. Everyone is different, but in many customers cases, 99.12% would be unacceptable. That is close to about over an hours worth of downtime.
However, good review and I am glad you took your time in finding the right host for you. After a little bit of reviewing you can easily find the right host, but some people are very quick to go with these "amazing deals" and not do their homework. Good luck with DreamHost!█ SwiftModders - Premium WHMCS Themes, Blesta Themes, and WordPress Development
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12-12-2006, 02:08 PM #9Retired Moderator
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That is close to about over an hours worth of downtime.
Uptime is very subjective in itself. 99.12% for simply a blog and gallery might be fine. As with most everything in this industry, it's all about what the person's needs and uses are.
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12-12-2006, 02:40 PM #10Frontend Web Developer
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Originally Posted by ldcdc█ SwiftModders - Premium WHMCS Themes, Blesta Themes, and WordPress Development
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12-13-2006, 04:00 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by ldcdc
Top stuff mate
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12-12-2006, 07:26 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Glad you are pleased with DreamHost, they have had some bad feedback lately.
Now, personally I prefer a higher uptime than 99.12%.
More like 99.97% or so....
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12-13-2006, 04:16 AM #13Hey, whats your uptime ?
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Thank you for your review.
Is it o.k to ask which domain you host with them ?
Perhaps you can add it to your signature or profile.
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12-14-2006, 02:38 PM #14New Member
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The uptime stats i posted in the original review were for the 1st month of usage. Sorry about that. Here are the current numbers as of today:
Updated stats:
Week: 2006-12-11 = 99.48%
Month: 2006-12 = 99.73%
Quarter: 2006-10 = 99.51%
For those of you interested in the domain i host with them please contact me directly. Thanks.
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12-14-2006, 07:54 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Looks like it's averaging out to be a little bit better. I always expect the first month to be poor and your updated uptime stats seems to show that they're working the kinks out of that particular server you're on. Thanks for keeping us updated mrwebmeister!
I'd be interested in seeing more stats in the futureA Collection of Web Hosts
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12-14-2006, 08:08 PM #16Retired Moderator
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Two months is a bit short for a review, hope you can come back later maybe six months down the road to give us a more comprehensive review?
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12-15-2006, 11:46 AM #17Everything in life is swelly
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Originally Posted by boonchuan<<< Please see Forum Guidelines for signature setup. >>>
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12-14-2006, 10:50 PM #18Retired Moderator
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Two months is a bit short for a review
For those of you interested in the domain i host with them please contact me directly. Thanks.
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12-15-2006, 10:27 AM #19
The domain submitted is indeed hosted with Dreamhost. Carry on.