Comments on: Bluehost vs Dreamhost

By: Stacey Dawson

Stacey Dawson — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 09:57:59 +0000

Thanks a lot. Actually my friend asked me to help him choose between dreamhost and bluehost for running his business website, and he and I have found this article a great help.

By: Ahmer Jamil Khan

Ahmer Jamil Khan — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:13:39 +0000

I switched from 000WebHost to BlueHost. 000WebHost being a free host had been giving me downtimes of as much as 15 hours a day! BlueHost has been much better, though the do not live up to their 99.9% uptime; I had 52 downtimes of a total of 3 hrs and 13 min in the last 30 days, my simple WordPress gets about 30 -60 page views a day, yet they are throttling the CPU for my site, the customer service said that its a bug they are working on to fix.
One major difference that I request the author to add:
DreamHost offers IPv6 addresses to customers whereas BlueHost does not!

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:53:10 +0000

Ah, sorry. The post was originally written in 2007, but it was last updated in Nov. 2012. The topic is pretty old, as are some comments, but the info in the post is not outdated! 😉

By: lesli

lesli — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:17:36 +0000

I am confused. How can an article that was written in November of 2012 have comments that date back to 2007? So, I am adding a comment to determine what date stamp my post gets 🙂

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 07:57:11 +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.