dreamhost.com 1Month Review

40sixty · #1 07-23-2006, 05:12 PM

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

Swelly · #2 07-23-2006, 05:20 PM

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.

canadian · #3 07-23-2006, 05:48 PM

is there a coupon for that deal? or is it advertised on their site?

SaniX11 · #4 07-23-2006, 06:02 PM

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.

markjut · #5 07-23-2006, 06:22 PM

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.

crinner · #6 07-23-2006, 06:26 PM

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.)

40sixty · #7 07-23-2006, 08:42 PM

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.

Quote:

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

**Justin** · #8 07-23-2006, 09:11 PM

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

SkyNetHosting · #9 07-24-2006, 10:22 AM

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?

Blebekblebek · #10 07-24-2006, 10:54 AM

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

tlinu · #11 08-23-2006, 10:50 AM

Good review

Nadabrahma · #12 08-23-2006, 11:43 AM

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.

cannedbrain · #13 08-23-2006, 12:07 PM

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).