DreamHost VPS Hosting Review

DreamHost VPS Hosting - Editor's Review

DreamHost prides themselves on being employee owned and operated. You'll understand this right away, within a minute of browsing their website, which offers several employee photos of when they were just kids. It's a neat personal touch that I think most customers will find interesting, different, and most likely trustworthy.

DreamHost offers Linux-VServer based VPS hosting with upgrade capabilities to a dedicated server. DreamHost provides you with a free trial to ensure you'll love their service before you make your first payment. Since DreamHost is using Linux-VServer, you will be required to use their control panel for administration. DreamHost does not currently provide cPanel or Plesk for their control panel.

DreamHost VPS Hosting - Price Value Review

Note: VPS Host Reviews only considers the monthly rate for DreamHost VPS pricing comparison and rating since the majority of VPS customers prefer to pay monthly.

DreamHost is currently charging a higher than average rate for their VPS hosting. Please refer to our DreamHost VPS hosting plans page for specifics on pricing and other details.

We feel DreamHost may still be a great option for your VPS hosting. DreamHost is one of few web hosts that allow you to store personal files such as backups, up to 50GB in a separate space on your account. With that as an option, DreamHost would be a great alternative to purchasing an online storage account if you felt the need for such an option.

DreamHost VPS Hosting - Reliability Review

DreamHost is reported as being extremely reliable and trustworthy. Recently in 2010, DreamHost made a switch to faster more reliable servers that ensure everyone will have great web hosting that limits exposure to bad sites that are resource hogs.

Based on the research we've done at VPS hosting reviews, we've found DreamHost customers have reported an overall excellent experience.

DreamHost VPS Hosting - Customer Support Review

DreamHost doesn't offer too many customer support options on their website without logging into their control panel. DreamHost doesn't offer telephone support at all and directs all pre-sales inquiries to a contact us web form that is used to submit your questions to them.

DreamHost does offer a status blog that reports on any server outages, problems, and future upgrade outages. This is a nice touch since most web hosts do not offer such a feature to their customers. With DreamHost, you'll just need to subscribe to their email notification list or RSS feed and you'll be in the know.

DreamHost offers a very popular online forum that has strong user participation. For us here at VPS Host Reviews, we found the forum to be full of great tips, information, feedback, and more. We encourage you to review this blog before purchasing. Had this forum not existed, we might have awarded DreamHost as 'poor' for support but since they have it, we've awarded them average.

We really wish DreamHost would offer more support options such as live chat, toll free phone support, international phone support, and an expansive knowledge base that covers most frequently asked questions.