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Comment by mwexler | Hacker News Reader

Wow, someone saying nice things about Dreamhost. A rare thing to see.

I've had several things hosted on Dreamhost for almost 20 years now, and they have been pretty great.

They're alright for a static site, however they fall into the trap most shared hosts fall into 'Unlimited' this and that which really means 'Please don't use a bunch or we'll suspend your account'.

Hopefully he has a better experience than I've had with them however if he gets traffic in big ways (say like front page of Reddit or HN) he might be in for a shock when they terminate service and try to push him to a higher plan.

Their wordpress plan is super expensive. They have you pay per visitor, I recall looking into it some time ago for my personal blog and it was beyond $100 per month to support enough visitors for the HN front page.

Yeah, that's mostly because wordpress is a dog. It really uses a lot of resources to serve the smallest of content. We use a CDN, a caching layer, and object caching in both wordpress and php, to make our site perform even half-way decently.

It's mostly static and cached content. Wordpress.com can serve orders of magnitude more traffic for free. Dreampress price is definitely not justified by the costs of resources.

Eh, I've had a dreamhost account for like 10 years and never really had any complaints.

And he didn’t even provide an affiliate link! I’m impressed.

Dreamhost has been the most reliable hosting provider I've ever worked with.

Are there Dreamhost horror stories? I've been using them for a while and while they are a little on the pricey side, the product has been as advertised, with very good support on the rare times I had problems.

There was a notable incident years ago when they messed up a billing script and precharged a year's service to all their customers, to the tune of $7.5 million. I'm not sure I've heard any horror stories since then behind the usual shared hosting things.

https://consumerist.com/2008/01/15/dreamhost-is-very-very-so...

To be fair I contacted them after this incident because exchange rate shifts plus fees meant I lost money even after they unwound their transaction, and they immediately credited me the difference rounded up. No "please send us proof" no blaming someone else. Just money in the bank immediately.

So whatever else somebody at Dreamhost understands that "sorry" is not just a magic word that makes things OK by itself.

Been their customer since about 2007-8 or so, had 1 problem I reported once and they fixed it immediately.

Only scummy thing I have seen them involved with is cloudatcost which I heard they bankrolled.

I've heard only good things. Certainly never noticed an atmosphere of complaints about them. And I'm not even a customer.

I've been hosting on Dreamhost since 2004 and love them.

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