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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Customer reviews (129)
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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.
When they reported a hacked site, DreamHost support gave minimally useful info but kept the site up and put a restored backup in a separate directory.
Managed WordPress then VPS kept crashing; DreamHost bumped RAM to 2GB, fixed it and gave free years, but the renewal price now looks astronomical.
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.
DreamHost VPS support is available in chat and eager to help, but TTFB is slow and sites keep going down despite a fix.
DreamHost tech support has been great and handles things beyond their skill, but the professional services site rebuild was a mistake.
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?
129 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.