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  1. #1
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    dreamhost.com 1Month Review

    Well, I been using dreamhost for close to a month now.

    Support: I belive support is the most important feature of any host.
    With dreamhost, I had great support. So far, I only had some DNS issues, and both were fixed in hours.

    Speed: My website loads fast, so I guess speed is very good.

    Uptime: In the one month, I only noticed 25 minutes of downtime. Not bad, for shared hosting.

    Priceing. Can't go wrong with $10 for a whole year.

    Control Panel: I prefer cPanel, but thier control panel is fine. Has more features that I need.

    Other: If your short on cash and needs a host, I suggest dreamhost.
    Also, you get a free domain!

    my domains that are hosted with them:
    http://martint.net
    http://postcrunk.com (still under construction).

    -martin

  2. #2
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    Good to see a positive review for this company. Glad you are happy. $10.00 for the whole year...I just hope your solution doesn't turn sour. Keep us posted as time moves forward.
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  3. #3
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    is there a coupon for that deal? or is it advertised on their site?
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    Well how many visits/daily users is your site getting, because im sure if you had a nice swing of a few thousand users your service would go in a downward spiral.
    Run with it.

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    If you would be prepared to tell us it would be interesting to know what bandwidth that dreamhost are giving you and how much you have used.

  6. #6
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    Thanks for passing by and letting us know your experience with DreamHost!

    Quote Originally Posted by canadian
    is there a coupon for that deal? or is it advertised on their site?
    I did a quick Google search for DreamHost coupons:
    mddr - $97 Off
    FLY - $97 Off

    (I'm not sure these work.)
    I've been using HostGator for 38 months.. and it's been awesome.
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  7. #7
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    gah, its a pain to login here.
    I login, and it takes me back to the login page lol.

    Ok, lets see.

    @canadian
    Look at crinner's post.

    @SaniX11
    Let's seeee...from my stats report.
    Average successful requests for pages per day: 4,196 (7,401)
    Thats on one of my busier subdomains. I'm guessing around 5 to 5.5 thousand sucessful request for pages per day. I think thats the number of visiters?
    Sorry, never used this stastics report before. ^_^

    @markjut
    Dreamhost advertises 1TB of bandwith (Yes, I know extreme overselling).
    I used around maybe 5 gig's?
    I dont need 1TB of bandwith, I chose dreamhost just cause of that $10 per year promotion

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  8. #8
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    Good to see a positive review for dreamhost. Hopefully they are in deed changing for the better (hopefully they were just previously having some growing pains).

    martint, please keep WHT posted from time to time on how it's going with them. Also welcome to WHT and enjoy your stay with us

  9. #9
    Well it's nice to see that you are happy with them, specialy within that price range, btw I believe that price is only for the first year right?
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    this month is the worst for uptime tough
    my site has 8 outages (base on siteuptime)
    but yeah I don't care bout uptime anymore
    if you want make a business, and not need extra large bw and space
    better stay away from them
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  11. #11
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    Good review
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    Thanx for the review. You only _noticed_ 25 minutes of downtime.... hmmm.... I do hope there wasn't more.
    You can install a service like Host-tracker if you want to monitor uptime.

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  13. #13
    Quote Originally Posted by crinner
    Thanks for passing by and letting us know your experience with DreamHost!



    I did a quick Google search for DreamHost coupons:
    mddr - $97 Off
    FLY - $97 Off

    (I'm not sure these work.)
    I just signed up with X97, which cut it down to $22.4 (yearly L1). I don't think you can go lower than that unless you sign up for bi-yearly plans. What I like about it is I can add my IP to allow direct connection to mySQL through command line shell but I can't create a new database from there, have to go to the control panel. And yeah, a few days ago I noticed the uptime was several hours and last night I couldn't open phpMyAdmin (though accessing through command line still worked).

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    I don't like their bandwidth feature:

    " Monthly bandwidth: Automatically Increases Weekly By: 8 GB"
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  15. #15
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    promotion? just $10 per year? how can i get that ? need any coupon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by macroz
    I don't like their bandwidth feature:

    " Monthly bandwidth: Automatically Increases Weekly By: 8 GB"
    I'm sorry to hear that! I'm a bit confused as to why, though.

    Customers automatically receive their full helping of bandwidth when signing up, and it increases by 8GB per week on top of what the plan already provides.

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    Maybe he wants moooooore bandwidth.....

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  18. #18
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    is dreamhost accept the debit card payment? such as visa electron debit card?

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    Nice to see a good review about dreamhost..

    Good Luck

  20. #20
    Hey, from my experience with Dreamhost, they are very fast and very reliable. Some downtime but not very long, very similar to MartinT. Been with them for about half a year now and highly recommend their $10 for a year deal.

  21. #21
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    I am still with Dreamhost and they rock! I think maybe Dreamhost works well with some sites - like small sites, fansites etc.

    Not sure abuot large forums and gaming sites or whatever lol

  22. #22
    Yeah i also have an account there (who hasn't) comparing to some other i have used like site5 or lunarpages, they are really good.

    Ohh and i have the dreamhost account for like...5 or 6 months and i have there some 10 domains, 5 mysql databases, about 11gb of used space and around 200gb of used bandwidth per month, no big problems, a couple of short burst of downtime lately but nothing compared with the downtime days of site5 and they seem to be related with their power outages and growing pains, and both seem under control.

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