They used DreamHost for about a decade with few complaints beyond slowish shared WordPress hosting, and praise the admin panel, support and ease of use. They later moved static sites to Cloudflare Pages.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
39% Positive20% Mixed41% Negative
Reliable shared and VPS hosting that many have stayed with for years; managed WordPress can be slow.
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Six years and still likes DreamHost, but recent Cloudflare and SSL renewal headaches and slipping support, and the cheapest shared tier was painfully slow for clients.
Years with no issues, but shared hosting was unpredictable and usually slow until upgrading to DreamPress, which was really fast.
They find their DreamHost shared plan painfully slow and are looking to switch or upgrade, yet value that support has saved them a few times when their site broke.
Small WordPress site on roughly $8 a month DreamHost plan is often slow or unreachable with 504 errors, and support did not help much.
Auction WordPress site on a 2 vCPU DreamHost VPS stays laggy in front end and dashboard; support's optimization tips changed nothing.
A DreamHost customer since 2007 left DreamPress after repeated memory-maxed timeouts and being asked to pay more with no guarantee it would fix the slowness.
After about 10 years, WordPress on shared hosting became nearly unusable with 30 second to 2 minute operations; support only suggested Cloudflare.
They had a DreamHost VPS for ecommerce sites that was still slow, so they switched to Hostinger.
Had occasional slowness on DreamHost shared hosting even with a very basic website.
Says DreamHost is fine but slow and often oversells its servers.
After moving from a Linode VPS to DreamHost shared hosting with 512MB, the WordPress backend became extremely slow.
Customer since 2006 battling peak-time 503 errors on shared hosting from noisy neighbors; reports get answered with upsells.
Says DreamHost used to be great but is mediocre now, with a site on another host loading far faster.
Their new WordPress site had an 11.9s time to first byte, and support said the database and web server were on different coasts. They used the easy money-back guarantee and left.
They had four paid services and say basic hosting declined until a WordPress site kept hitting limits and going down. The VPS performed even worse and support kept pushing upgrades.
They ran a WP Multisite on DreamHost for about 3 years and found the new panel hard to use, the DNS locked down, and time to first byte very slow. Support deleted their site while changing a CNAME and could not resolve an IP block, so they moved away.
Slow DreamHost VPS with a 1.8s TTFB that support could not fix after raising limits, though agents were nice; a blank test page also loaded slowly.
They have kept a portfolio on a Shared Unlimited plan for 10+ years and it has worked ok. New subdomains used for testing designs feel very slow despite a good GTmetrix grade.
On a new DreamHost Shared Unlimited WordPress install, wp-admin was extremely slow because the domain and database sat in different datacenters. Support moved them together and the problem appeared solved.
After 14 years on DreamHost they find even a fresh default WordPress install takes 3-4 seconds to start rendering. They plan to move to a VPS when their year comes up.
Clients on DreamHost and SiteGround; says they only seem fast thanks to aggressive caching and a WordPress instance runs faster on a $20 AWS box.
They run 3 WordPress sites on a DreamHost VPS and are unhappy with speed. The WordPress admin dashboard has become painfully slow despite a Grade A GTmetrix score.
Has 3 DreamHost VPS; one had terrible uptime and speed until DreamHost moved them to another VPS, which fixed it, though the move came with little notice.
A client's WordPress site on DreamHost was painfully slow even after upgrading to VPS, but flew when duplicated to another server.
DreamHost VPS support is available in chat and eager to help, but TTFB is slow and sites keep going down despite a fix.
They just started on DreamHost shared hosting and found the first visit to their site takes over 10 seconds, with later visits faster.
Long-time DreamHost shared customer whose only complaint is that large images load in 500ms to 1s.
A fresh DreamHost install was slow to navigate in the admin section.
After over a decade they hit the same PHP upgrade fee problem with a vague notice. Shared servers also crawled to about 1mbps transfer speed, so they are looking for alternatives.
On DreamHost shared hosting for a WordPress site and finding it slow and somewhat unusable.
Noticed performance issues on DreamHost for years and found load times much better after moving to SiteGround.
Elementor-based WordPress sites on DreamHost shared hosting take 5 to 10 seconds to show anything, and even the admin panel is slow.
They ran 10 websites on DreamHost and hit the same sleeping, slow first-load behaviour, then closed their account and moved to another host.
Common questions about DreamHost
What do customers say about DreamHost?
DreamHost is mostly praised for reliable shared and VPS hosting with helpful support, and many users have stayed for years. Downsides are few: some slowness on managed WordPress plans, a long outage for one customer, and price rises on VPS.
Is DreamHost worth it?
Of the 71 reviews with a clear verdict, 39% are positive, 20% mixed and 41% negative. The praise mentioned most is helpful support. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about DreamHost?
The praise reviewers mention most: helpful support (12 reviews), reliable (12 reviews) and great value (8 reviews). For example: On DreamHost since 2008; went back after SiteGround renewal sticker shock, and support helped once when stuck.
What are the most common complaints about DreamHost?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (16 reviews), slow (14 reviews) and outages (9 reviews). For example: Websites on a DreamHost VPS were down 3 days; support only said to wait, with no ETA or cause, so they are leaving.
What does the signal score of 67 mean?
It's how well reviewed DreamHost is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of DreamHost?
Category: Shared hosting.
Where do these DreamHost reviews come from?
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