DreamHost is a great inexpensive solution for shared hosting. They offer VPS services for more advanced needs. Their control panel is simple to use. They have the ability to run Passenger for support of Ruby, Python, and NodeJS sites. Their one-click installs work great for clients with simple needs. Email hosting is solid and does a good job of eliminating spam. Support for LetsEncrypt SSL certificates is a great way to deploy SSL across the board for no additional cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've never had a real complaint with DreamHost while using them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that I can keep everything in one place--domains, hosting, database management, etc. DreamHost's one-click installs are amazing. DreamHost provides free shared hosting and one free domain name to non-profits. DreamHost supports the new free Let's Encrypt ssl certificate authority. Generally speaking, DreamHost support is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting things up in DreamHost can be tricky sometimes. Also, once I asked support to delete one of my virtual machines, and they deleted the wrong one. That was a really bad mistake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use of setting up a mail account and getting shell access to a server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like there are too many features that I don't actually need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They are owned by their employees, US-based, and they are amazingly fast on fixing the few issues I've had with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their 1-Click Install list has not changed in the last few years. In general, they seem to be a little behind in adopting new technologies, but not far enough to affect my workflow. About the time I'm looking into upgrading, they're upgrading their systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dreamhost's control panel allows you to customize and make changes for almost anything you ever need including handling domain records, web server configuration, etc. The customer service is excellent too, usually responding to major issues in a short amount of time without needing any kind of extra cost contract for quick responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The control panel looks archaic, it could use a little more redesign, maybe some options to hide advanced configuration for users that don't need to see everything. The monthly pricing for various services is good, but I think it could be lower these days with how much competition there is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Excellent rebuilt control panel, very easy to use VPS management and setup. The support ticket system is excellent, and they have done a great job making the control panel easy to use-- it's a long ways from a "CPanel", it's a true custom interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At one point they had frequent issues with capacity and downtime, particularly of email systems. They also had issues with DDOS attacks. These issues seem to be pretty much in the past however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their dashboard is completely custom and not cluttered like other systems like cPanel. Their navigation makes sense and generally allows easy customization for whatever I need with my shared hosting plan.

You can enable specific IP(s) to connect directly with your (shared) MySQL database server. This is very useful for external applications and/or using your own database administration utility; large backups or restores, etc.

You're allowed UNLIMITED sub-domains on any of your hosted domains. This is very useful for logical segmentation of your web application. Or binding a sub-domain like 'svn.yourdomain.com' to a freely hosted subversion repository. Which, is another great feature for anyone wanting their own private revision control system.

Cron jobs are fully supported. Fair warning: it requires a little knowledge with Linux file system, being that everything is hosted in a Linux environment. It's not that difficult to figure out once you have something up and running.

However, if you're getting nowhere fast, they do have a decent and somewhat consistently updated wiki that gives you basic instructions on how to setup virtually anything in your account.

There is also a decent status dashboard page you can use to monitor degraded services or subscribe to their twitter support account for updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whenever you setup a database host name, they force an instance of phpMyAdmin to load if a connection is established on port 80[/443]. This may be desirable for some novice users, but I see it as a serious security risk. This basically invites hackers to attempt a brute force attack on the ENTIRE shared MySQL database server(s).

Sometimes settings are not fully applied to your account if you're making rapid changes to similar services. This may require hitting Save on some settings, again. This can be a pain when you're not sure if the changes not taking affect are because of a misconfiguration on your part or because of the aforementioned.

Despite being on a shared hosting plan, service can still be somewhat slow. Response times are pretty quick, but overall system resources on the server processing any of my PHP scripts seems constantly taxed. So, it would seem that their could be more policing of other users that may be abusing shared resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great prices, great custom control panel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes support is slow. Shared webhosting website load times are a bit average or below average. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I’ve only used their shared hosting option. File access through FTP is slower than what I’d like, and their clusters seem to go down every couple of months or so. I scored a bunch of free credit from them a while ago when they were having major issues with the file server my account was on (it was down more than it was up for a good month or so). Customer service is actually easy to deal with, and they are surprisingly helpful. The best feature is the shell access though. For shared hosting, this is rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s a little on the pricier side (a few $ more a month compared to others). They get you to bite on the new customer deals, but once those expire you are stuck with an above-market rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.