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By: Mcnallen

Mcnallen — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:35:00 +0000

Great review as I am looking for a new host now

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:39:00 +0000

I love HostGator. Recently I needed I had a pretty tricky problem (enabling PDO on an account where I had configured my .htaccess to use PHP 5.3) and they got a senior Linux admin to fix for me in less than 10 minutes. I’ll never switch as long as their support is that good.

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harshitsinghal — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:09:06 +0000

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By: CoachNotes

CoachNotes — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:15:28 +0000

What are you disagreeing with? In my experience, the people who love the DH control panel are usually far more technically inclined than the group of people I would recommend cPanel for. Case in point is your use of “second level subdomain.” My clients, family, and friends wouldn't begin to know what you were referring to.

cPanel isn't the “best” control panel necessarily. But everywhere you look, you'll see pictures. Most of the techie jargon is hidden. When you want your clients to DIY, you tend to give them something that makes it easier for them — and easier for you (from a tech support standpoint).

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By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:31:00 +0000

Your review on Dreamhost does not seem very accurate. I have been with them about 3 years now. They have a custom cPanel, and recently added virtual private servers where you can choose how much CPU time you want for a reasonable price. I receive responses on tickets that I mark urgent within as little as one or two hours. If I mark them not so urgent, it might be one day. I don’t think I ever waited more than 24 hours for support to get back to me. On reliability, I think they were pretty bad a few years ago, but it seems to be improving. I think it depends on which server they put your site(s). Some have more downtime than others. I like their transparency: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

Of course, once I have a website that gets very busy, I plan to make a decent amount of money off that website and pay for VPS or dedicated so I can have a little peace of mind on reliability.

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By: the Beta Guy

the Beta Guy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:29:34 +0000

I disagree. In fact, the very reason people love DH is its control panel, which is much better than the cPanel. How about this: Fantastico doesn't even let you install Wordpress to a second level subdomain. e.g. <http://xyz.com/abc/def>. In fact this is one of the primary reasons I hate Fantastico.

By: the Beta Guy

the Beta Guy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:21:20 +0000

Well, their interface is what really hooks me onto them. I tried
experimenting with other hosts, but it proved to me way too difficult to
adjust to their workflows.

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By: Taranfx

Taranfx — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:10:39 +0000

Well said, everyone has a similar opinion about them, “they are getting worse”. HostGator is the only reliable one around. I love their Tech support, they are so cooperative. You can even get a hold of them on twitter if things get worse, but I've never got into that situation. Every problem is solved within couple of minutes.

By: Mike McLin

Mike McLin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:44:13 +0000

I have been a STRONG advocate of Dreamhost. I host about 50 different sites with them over about 7 or so different accounts. Lately (I'd say 6 months ago roughly) it has been going downhill…and fast! I've been with them for about 5 years, so I figured I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and ride the wave out assuming they might be upgrading, etc. Unfortunately it hasn't gotten better, and it is now starting to affect deadlines and cost me money. Tonight was the last straw, and my first step towards finding another host. It's unfortunate because I was so accustomed to the Dreamhost workflow, and really enjoyed their control panel. I am getting ready to start a project for a client that wants to use Blue Host. Looks like I won't be enjoying a much improved experience over there either. Time to give HostGator a shot.

I should note that I do have a domain that uses a Private Server with Dreamhost, and besides one week of hell where their servers really got messed up, that site has always run fast. I wouldn't hesitate to continue using Dreamhost PS for big-traffic domains.

By: Miss enumID

Miss enumID — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:01:29 +0000

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By: Vern

Vern — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:19:52 +0000

Nice, honest review, Taranfx. I have both DreamHost (3+ years) and HostGator accounts. I keep DH because I don't need much support (maybe 3 times in 3 years), it offers SSH, and I can run almost any app there that might not run on some of the other hosts. However, I am increasingly annoyed at them with all the Internal Server 500 errors lately, which I think are due to my WordPress blogs.

I keep a HG account because of cPanel, so I can visually walk clients through issues. I also like HostGator because I was able to run a database app on it that wouldn't even run on DH. And I don't get Error 500 when running my (or my clients') WordPress blogs.

One thing you might want to address:

"They all have same CPanel, same Fantastico (for installing apps) and good ways of managing MySQL database (PhpmyAdmin), unlimited accounts."

DreamHost doesn't use cPanel, it uses a proprietary control panel, which IMHO is definitely NOT user friendly. I rarely recommend DH to clients because of this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:54:00 +0000

I’ve used bluehost for two years and have never had any problems with them. Granted you’ve had your own experiences, but my website is still up, I get some traffic, no customer support problem, etc.

So I don’t see why bluehost is that bad.

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HostGator.com — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:41:22 +0000

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By: Yahng

Yahng — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:12:38 +0000

You nailed it. BlueHost is utter disguise. I had freaking sleepless nights with them. Now I`m with HostGator for last 1 year, without single complaint.

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By: the Beta Guy

the Beta Guy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:46:25 +0000

Yes. The domains that I referred are closed group websites with limited traffic. I have never seen 1000 clicks a second or so. So, can't really say how Dreamhost behaves for heavy sites. But for my purpose, it is great ..