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.
Says DreamHost is fine but slow and often oversells its servers.
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.
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.
DreamHost VPS support is available in chat and eager to help, but TTFB is slow and sites keep going down despite a fix.
Long-time DreamHost shared customer whose only complaint is that large images load in 500ms to 1s.
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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