Small WordPress site on roughly $8 a month DreamHost plan is often slow or unreachable with 504 errors, and support did not help much.
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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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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.
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.
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.
A client's WordPress site on DreamHost was painfully slow even after upgrading to VPS, but flew when duplicated to another server.
They just started on DreamHost shared hosting and found the first visit to their site takes over 10 seconds, with later visits faster.
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?
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.