Comments on: BlueHost vs DreamHost

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[...] plan. Otherwise… well, I can’t help you there. Do your research. Read reviews and comparisons to help you make your decision (right now, I like DreamHost). [...]

By: Abhishek Prakash

Abhishek Prakash — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:53:27 +0000

My site at hosted on bluehost often gives error establishing database connection…I am fed up with it,…

By: Laarni

Laarni — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:26:09 +0000

I have been delaying my decision on which web hosting service to use because I wanted to know which one suits my needs better. After reading this article and the comments from other readers, I am definitely signing up with BlueHost. Thanks, guys!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:57:11 +0000

Was a customer with Dreamhost since 2004. Was happy with my Dreamhost experience up until about a year ago when things started to roll downhill. Eventually it got to the point where I was constantly being told that either my scripts were being killed, memory was being overused, that it was faulty equipment, and so-on and so-forth.

After checking out some other hosting companies, reading up on some reviews, and checking prices, I settled on Bluehost (yesterday, in fact). From what I can tell, I made the right choice.

I’d probably recommend Dreamhost to people who want to host a website that they don’t really care if it’s not up when they need it to be.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:19:36 +0000

Here’s a good comparison. I have a site on Dreamhost shared that’s having server overload problems. They tell me that I need to upgrade to VPS, yet I only get 15k-30k page views/month.

My friend has the exact same wordpress theme/setup and gets 100k page views or more per month on bluehost. Unlike me, he doesn’t have any server overload problems. His site is about 3 sections faster than mine by pingdom too.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:03:18 +0000

Bluehost is down right now. It has been down for most of the hour. It impacts all of our e-mail accounts (about 300) and all of our websites (over a dozen). They installed something on the production server and discovered a conflict. They then installed a patch and it is still down. Not very professional for a service supposing to serve the business community.

By: Muhammed

Muhammed — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:46:49 +0000

One disadvantage of dreamhost which I think should be pointed out; If you have over 5k unique visitors daily. they suspend your account and force you to buy VPS.

But bluehost won’t do this.

By: Max Elliot

Max Elliot — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:41:48 +0000

I’ve been hosting with Bluehost for some time now and I have to agree: their reliability and speed are fantastic, but I’d like to add that their technical support and customer service are some of the best there is.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:26:26 +0000

I was a DreamHost member from December 2007 to March 20th, 2008, and started using BlueHost since then. Here’s my experiences with DH, in point form:

- Mediocre up-time (compared to BlueHost so far — I was on the “Blingy” server with DH, and it was constantly down — e-mail was unreliable.)

- SQL databases are on a DIFFERENT server than the actual website, and thus have slower loading times for sites that need access to SQL.

- Load times for regular content (html, pics, etc) were fine.

- Good CP

Since I’ve switched to BlueHost, I miss some of the features DreamHost has (catch-all e-mail, for one), but reliability and speed are a must for me.