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URL: http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?206737
Description: PHP4 Support
Full Unix Shell
Crontab Access
Full CGI Access
Canned CGI Scripts

Reviews (1):


    Pretty good
Reviewer: Anonymous       04-06-2007
A lot of people tend to get over emotional after having a bad experience and start writing really bad comments or vice versa based on their experience.

I would however like to present a hopefully helpful review of this host for everyone to decide upon.

I have had my hosting account with Dreamhost.com for the past 2 years on their basic shared hosting plan which has been more than sufficient. I have hosted several websites, both live as well as test sites.

The Pros of this host are undeniably the huge amount of webspace that you get and the amount of bandwidth and unlimited SQL databases, subdomains and domains. This was extremely helpful for me since I was able to set up multiple websites with ease, each using its own database. It also allowed me to be able to test differen free scripts from around the net with ease.

Another good feature is the one click installs available which allow you to install popular web scripts with ease. Apart from this they offer streaming media options from your server and also allow you to be in full control of you DNS and MX (mail server) settings.

As far as the cons are concerned, there is quite a bit of downtime at different intervals. Dont get me wrong, its not like they are down all the time. But to give you an estimate, in a period of 6 months, expect atleast 3 to 4 days of downtime in total. Various reasons including power outages, attacks on servers, hardware failure are presented as the excuses. Overall it is not as bad as one would expect really, but it can be pretty frustrating at times. Especially when it coincides with the launch of a new site or produce on your website.

The customer support is over all OK. It takes up to a day for them to reply in most cases but you can expect an occaisional reply within the hour. But over all they do reply every single ticket and in majority cases present you with the solution. They also offer a support forum where you can ask questions. All that being said, I would also like to say that one of my queries was never solved however, in which case their reply was simply that they cannot figure it out at all. I let it go eventually because atleast they were honest about it. One thing I will say is that they are honest in their replies to you and dont make stuff up just to cover up.

Anyways, My over all rating for dreamhost is: Good

I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good cheap host offering tonnes of features, space, bandwidth and databses.

Lastly I will just say that I intend to move hosts from dreamhost, but this is not beause I dont like them. But it si because my website has grown considerably and now requires a VPS server. So since dreamhost no longer offers VPS, I have to shift :)