Hostgator.com versus dreamhost.com

[helloypi]

Hello,

I've been with dreamhost.com for about 4 years and I have been very happy with them. The only thing I would quibble about is that they can have downtimes and it takes a little bit of time for them to get back to you via support (but much faster now).

My renewal is up at dreamhost and hadn't thought of moving until I read some good reviews about hostgator.com

I'm on 9.95 plan at dreamhost and would be interested in the $7.95 plan at hostgator.com

Dreamhost = # 500 GB Disk Storage
# 5 TB Monthly Bandwidth

hostgator.com = 600 gb storgae
6tb bandwidth


Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[richrf]

Hi,

Been with Hostgator for about a year. A couple of short outages at the beginning. Nothing during the last several months. I chose them over Dreamhost because Hostgator has free 24X7 telephone support. Something that really came in handy the couple of times I had trouble. They only backup once a week, and the current backup overwrites the previous one, so make sure you take your own backups if you have critical data.

Rich

 

[DarkSoul]

I have had a HG account for almost 5 years now. Think in that time I only ever had maybe 2 hours total downtime. Super fast support. Had a DH account for about 2 years and it was alright. Had a bit of downtime and didn't really hit it off with support. But at the time DH was offering the best deals that you could find. Over all both are good services, I preffer HG but I think it would just come down to personal choice in the end.

 

[italiandragon]

sorry about the little off-topic but do you know if GoDaddy oversell and how good/bad is compared to Hostgator?

Thanks

 

[MutoGen]

Na not really. Hostgator is a bit cheaper with bigger plan. Still I am pretty happy with dreamhost.

Are you going to consume all that disk space and bandwdth?