Comments on: HostGator vs DreamHost

By: IP Man

IP Man — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:04:44 +0000

I’m using host gator and have no complaints. You can host with multiple ip address if you have lots of sites

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:04:47 +0000

I don’t think Dreamhost offers cPanel, but they do have a cPanel Importer tool discussed here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/CPanel_Importer

By: jess

jess — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:56:38 +0000

Does Dreamhost offer cPanel now?

By: gtatrader

gtatrader — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:52:52 +0000

I have been a dreamhost client for many years. i will never leave them.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:27:24 +0000

In terms of hosting providers, I have experience with HostGator, Dreamhost, and Bluehost.

I had a site that was on HostGator shared hosting and didn’t have too many issues. It went down once or twice over a six month period.

I have 2 sites on Dreamhost VPS and Dreamhost has been more like a nightmare than a Dream. Things weren’t too bad until I started getting server overloads on their shared hosting. I had 2 blog sites with fairly little traffic at the time (combined less than 30k monthly page views).

They pushed me to their VPS service and I’m paying about $25 per month to host 2 sites that only get maybe 60k total monthly page views which is not great value for that amount of traffic. I’ve moved servers 4 times and been down twice per week or more since upgrading to their VPS.

I have a site on Bluehost shared that runs faster than Dreamhost VPS by Pingdom (same theme/plugins) and it’s never gone down ever.

Once I figure out how to switch which is harder since Dreamhost doesn’t use Cpanel, I’m gone.

By: Tedrick

Tedrick — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:07:55 +0000

For mid-range websites that are not business mission critical (churches, clubs, personal/family), I’m not sure you can beat Dreamhost. It helps to know what you’re doing, but their custom panel should be a big help to someone that doesn’t.

I recently dumped 1and1 for Dreamhost (note: 1and1 doesn’t make that easy). Main reason was that Dreamhost can handle TYPO3 on shared hosting and 1and1 can’t. Once I switched, I wished I had found Dreamhost a lot sooner.

By: rahul

rahul — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:19:48 +0000

I’ve a site crickethighlights.org which was running with hostgator. My only problem with them is that their servers couldnt handle high traffic spikes sometimes. Anyway, I’ll vote for hostgator all the time.

By: Doubter

Doubter — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:39:24 +0000

I don’t understand why none of these comparative reviews don’t say anything about server performance. You would think this is quite important, no?
How many sites are hosted on one server? How does rich media perform on the servers?

By: sklfjd

sklfjd — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:13:02 +0000

Dreamhost customer for over 5 years. I also have clients on Host Gator. cPanel sucks in comparison to Dreamhost’s panel.

Google searches, as mentioned above, are a terrible way to determine who is good. The best part is both have a money back guarantee. Try them both, and choose what you enjoy.

As for me, Dreamhost it will be. I recently upgraded from oversold, shared Dreamhost hosting to Dreamhost PS (private server) and it is absolute bliss. I tend to enjoy their humor, too, and their support has been excellent – I have only used email/support tickets.

By: Steven Li

Steven Li — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:09:46 +0000

I like to use Dreamhost, and my blog is on dreamhost