DreamHost RSS feed customers and users reviews at whtop.com https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:00:28 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/layout/whtop/images/logo.png https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com Feed provided by https://www.whtop.com/ en-us (c) 2004 - 2026 https://www.whtop.com/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Web Hosting Reviews https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/68624 Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:50:32 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/68624 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/63848 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:59:15 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/63848 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/20600 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:55:08 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/20600 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/19544
Their control panel is very easy to use; everything is explained in detail so every customer, even a beginner, can setup his own website in no-time.

They have high quality servers; to my opinion they dont ...]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:52:43 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/19544 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/19424 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:13:26 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/19424 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/18995 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:49:26 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/18995 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/15670
Whether you check email with outlook or their web-based system, you are screwed.

They once had a nice, simple, web-based email system but the new one is awful. It occasionally crashes my laptop and it is ...]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:43:07 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/15670 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/13674 My daughter who encouraged me to take up a two year package with think host as it was claimed by them they were a green company and set up a 2 year package for me!
The two year package was paid out of my then active company account.
During this time we never used Think Host once not even attempted to put up a site.
My company mainly based in real estate went into free fall and subsequently closed.
fast forward two years.
Think ...]]> Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:36:27 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/13674 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/13477 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:40:40 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/13477 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12795 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:05:44 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12795 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12915 That said, service was always very quick and friendly when submitting a support ticket.
Now though, I decided to leave Think Host and I have been waiting for nearly 2 months (!!) to receive ...]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:55:20 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12915 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12251 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:01:50 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/12251 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/10811
Pricing is okay if you don't expect much in return.
Didn't experience any downtimes.
Control panel was quite okay.
Instead of FAQ or knowledge base we found wikis, descriptions there often were of little help.
We didn't really ...]]> Mon, 31 May 2010 10:36:45 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/10811 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/9502
I am a full time web developer myself and trying to ask for help to alter some settings in php.ini file. I've followed every step in their WIKI documentation, which seems to be very helpful and they are knowing what to do.

But my site gone down, so i submitted a support ticket as a matter of urgency and this is what i've got back:
I'm terribly sorry but we do not provide technical assistance for ...]]> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:12:41 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/9502 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/6465
Absolutely NOT recommended, even with a small budget you can find better uptime services elsewhere.]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:51:18 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/6465 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/5630
Dreamhost is the worst hosting company I have ever dealt with. I'm responsible for number of websites and by mistake I choose Dreamhost for the newest client (askdivine.com)!

They have disabled my website which is only two weeks old, and it is offline for well over 24hrs because of a security threat!

Apparently a ...]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:51:36 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/5630 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/5626
The price wise and the control panel is are ok, but the tech support sucks! The usual response time is between 10 to 12 hrs – and still they have no clues about anything!

I think the company runs by a bunch of school kids since when a problem rises they are running around confused like a headless chickens! I have heard excuses for their incompetency beyond comprehension!

It should be renamed as NightmareHost!]]> Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:53:30 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/5626 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4900
The problem seemed to get better for awhile, then in early 2009 the downtimes returned, causing my clients to complain about their websites being down and losing significant business as a result of my website, the ...]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 08:32:33 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4900 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4533
Although I experienced good service for the first year, the last six months, and particularly the last month, was horrible. I received notices from website monitoring services on a daily basis notifying me that the websites were not available. Although I notified Thinkhost, nothing was done to improve it.

I received complaints from customers about returned emails and website not available, or pages too slow to load. While they didn't do ...]]> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:55:50 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4533 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4380
There are some clever damage control postings, mostly by affiliates and sites like thinkhost-sucks, but don't be snookered into the comparisons ...]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:40:12 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4380 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4005
after only 1 hour of trying their control panel I asked for a refund - it was slow and looked like some dos interface from the early 90's.

the terms of service on their site claim a 14 day and an 120 day no questions asked guaranteed refund - now thinkhost has been hassling me for 2 months and won't even respond to the 120 day guarantee - their customer care is like the bermuda triangle - when you ask for a refund they control the closing process - set up ...]]> Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:37:51 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/4005 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3811 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:53:46 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3811 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3464
As per some of the "crazy" comments here about them being white supremacists and other bizarre accusations? Believe it if you will but think of ...]]> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:21:01 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3464 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3442 Boy, how I wish I had read these reviews before... I also wanted a socially responsible company to host my sites and found Thinkhost. I signed up for an account, even though I thought it was weird to have an automatic script follow me and pester me with coupons and offers right from the first visit to their web site. So, anyway, I signed up for an account and quickly realized it was not a good company when their admin panel turned out ...]]> Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:50:25 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3442 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3435
Did you ever want to use a hosting company and have it just, work? That's not Dream Host. Dream Host is known as Dream Disgrace. Possibly the worst hosting company on the face of this earth.]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:16:21 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3435 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3183
Like most people I signed up my client with thinkhost because I valued their socially-conscious low carbon footprint web hosting. If I had known the problems that would ensue, I never would have paid them any money. My story is really quite simple. Due to some technical issue, I never received a welcome email detailing how I could access the control panel, and Dns transfer fields, etc. I sent them a support ticket, which was my first clue that trouble was brewing. At ...]]> Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:45:01 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/3183 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2951
http://www.thecivicplatform.com/

If you research this site you will see their affiliation with New Dream Network.
New Dream is even collecting money for The Civic Platform here:
http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=8987

If you are ok with supporting neo-nazi's / white supremacists then you've picked the ...]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:47:25 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2951 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2944 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:15:54 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2944 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2881
The control panel was from hell, if you could ever access it. Whenever we tried to login the servers would not respond. FTP was totally inadequate, like dial up on a cable modem. We even got a letter from the big boss, Vladislav Davidzon, making excuses for their recent poor performance. Say what?!?

Forget Solar, these guys must ...]]> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:47:33 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2881 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2718 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:55:55 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2718 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2708 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:06:42 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2708 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2703
We wanted to change to a "green" host but guess what? DON'T do THIS with THinkhost!!! Better to stick with the ones who have a good support center and services and then just buy trees to offset.

We have paid a 2 year contract with Thinkhost and when we wanted to transfer from our old hosting company we encountered the following:

1. we changed dns but we werent able to see the website; they didn't create the marinedream account in the hosting panel only after 3 ...]]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:59:52 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2703 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2691 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:29:57 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2691 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2630 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:08:02 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2630 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2532
The website is down for hours at a time with no way to figure out why, no one to contact and if, by some miracle a support ticket actually makes it to their office, they deny everything and say everything is fine. Simply reboot your computer.

Their customer service is lacking in ...]]> Fri, 30 May 2008 12:35:14 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2532 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2373 Sat, 03 May 2008 08:00:51 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2373 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2268 call when there is a problem and I find it to be a HUGE problem when they
start charging me for things they shouldn't charge me for. They made
several erroneous charges and they fixed two of them, but they are
refusing to fix a $190 problem and have my (2) domains held hostage unless
I pay them $260! What!!!??? And again... nobody to talk to.

It's a good thing these are the ones I'm building, not the ones I ...]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:59:13 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2268 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2207 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:35:31 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2207 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2196 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:00:37 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/2196 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1778
Firstly dreamhost is slow !!!

i try close my account but they dont close , because they want free domain price , opps...

They say everywhere giving free domain , dont trust , if try close the account , they take 9.95$ for free domain , how is free? they say lie...

Dont buy dreamhost for your mind health...]]> Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:58:32 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1778 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1696 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:00:53 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1696 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1532
I've never been ignored if I've had to contact customer service or support. Sometimes my sites are a tad slow, but thats shared hosting for you. If I wanted blazing fast sites, I'd loosen up the wallet and pay for dedicated ...]]> Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:27 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1532 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1355 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:20:44 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1355 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1333 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:40:13 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1333 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1058 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:26:26 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/1058 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/779 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:59:14 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/779 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/594 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:30:07 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/594 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/519 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:18:09 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/519 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/501 Also, there's NO REFUND especially on renewal, even you cancel on the same day of your renewal like. This is the exact response from dreamhost.com: "we only offer refunds within the first 97 days of service with us. It has been 369 days since you signed up with us, and we can not issue a refund to your card in this case. I apologize for the inconvenience that this has caused. ...]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:09:00 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/501 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/491
First off, tt is advisable to sign up for the site with one of the many available coupons, which allows you to save some serious money on your first bill. Without this, the prices won't be nearly as attractive.

Their basic plan already offers 20 GB of Webspace, a traffic limit of 1000GB, plus lots of neat goodies such as a ...]]> Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:25:02 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/491 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/482 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:55:44 +0100 https://www.whtop.com/reviews/dreamhost.com/482