Dreamhost Uptime

Uptime is very important consideration when you are making your choice for a web hosting provider.  To be honest, when I signed up for Dreamhost I did not do any detailed research into this area because I was both in a hurry to launch a website and there was little available information on Dreamhost uptime.

The reality of any uptime measurement is that you will see different results for the same company and this is because uptime often varies drastically depending upon which server you are located on.  One server may need hardware upgrade and have a bad month with downtime and so one person’s experience will be bad for that month whereas another person on the same host will have a great experience.

Before I go any further, I want to point out that Dreamhost does offer a 100% uptime guarantee, so definitely check that link out. Essentially, they will refund and prorate your account for any downtime your experience.

You can see below the stats that I have collected for Dreamhost uptime for this website but they are somewhere in the vicinity of 99%. Personally I think ALL webhosts are improving and are very aware of server downtime as an important issue when  people  are choosing among webhosts.

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I have been with Dreamhost since 2005 and my  experience with Dreamhost and uptime has been very good. One time, I  was located on a server that was experiencing downtime and some other problems and I requested that I be moved to another server and the problem was solved. See June 2007.   Later,  I saw the server was upgraded. Dreamhost is very transparent about server upgrades/server issues – Check out their dreamhost status page.

Personal Stats for Dreamhost Uptime

Dreamhost Uptime

You can see for this website we had a bit of downtime in June 2007 but then after getting switched to another server – I have had zero downtime problems since then. Disclaimer: This website is being monitored every 30 minutes and not every 10 seconds with the free version of site uptime.

Nonetheless, uptime for Dreamhost on this server has been excellent for the past two years.  Today in 2009, the majority of webhosts have excellent uptime and personally I feel the criteria for choosing webhost should be other factors such as ease of use – see Dreamhost Control Panel and the technical features that you require.

Dreamhost Uptime Chart

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