Getting Started with DreamHost
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Signed up, got a receipt, got an email that they can't get my account to work. They gave me a link to sign into my account, but it doesn't work. So, at this point, total fail. 100% fail.
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Nice way to start off huh? I'm sure they will fix it soon!
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What plan did you pick?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Nice way to start off huh? I'm sure they will fix it soon!
If you dig through their notes, there is something about accounts taking three hours to set up. Their website pre-sales is very polished. Their interfaces post-sales, not so much.
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So they failed to set up our account. We waited over twenty four hours. Not only did they screw up the account but their system won't let us log in either. So they have our credit card info and no way to cancel it. No service, no nothing. No way to reset our passwords either, they don't send a reset email like they say that they do. Going to have to deal with this via the credit card company most likely. Looks like DreamHost needs to be avoided at all cost. Going to take a look at A Small Orange and see if they are a better option. They are one quarter the cost, so probably should have looked at them first anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said:
So they failed to set up our account. We waited over twenty four hours. Not only did they screw up the account but their system won't let us log in either. So they have our credit card info and no way to cancel it. No service, no nothing. No way to reset our passwords either, they don't send a reset email like they say that they do. Going to have to deal with this via the credit card company most likely. Looks like DreamHost needs to be avoided at all cost. Going to take a look at A Small Orange and see if they are a better option. They are one quarter the cost, so probably should have looked at them first anyway.
Wow. I wonder if they went under or something?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Wow. I wonder if they went under or something?
Seems hard to believe, but once you get past their main website nothing looks very professional. Definitely appears to be all icing and no cake. I've contacted billing telling them that they had better not charge our card. We will see if anyone actually works there.
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That's not very impressive. I find it hard to believe that they would not have polished their signup system, losing customers before they even get a chance to try the product is a very foolish time to lose them.
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The upside, of course, is that I always feel bad when there are competing products and I have no idea which one to try out first and feel bad that maybe the other one was just as good, or better, and I never gave them a chance. So, I don't feel bad that DreamHost lost a customer, in this case.
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I sent an E-mail to their PR department with a link to this. So maybe they can give us some answers as to what's up with this.
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They should make contacting them a bit easier. I wanted a phone number but the "contact" link just took me to submit a ticket, which I did. But that's not a satisfactory experience, especially after two previous problems. How did you get their PR email address? Is that somewhere on their website?
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@scottalanmiller said:
They should make contacting them a bit easier. I wanted a phone number but the "contact" link just took me to submit a ticket, which I did. But that's not a satisfactory experience, especially after two previous problems. How did you get their PR email address? Is that somewhere on their website?
There was a dropdown for PR on the contact form. There is not phone support accounting to this http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Contacting_DreamHost
I actually still have a domain registered through them but, not hosted with them. I might need to consider transferring the domain elsewhere if this is what they are up to.
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I poked around on their Contact Page and saw nothing but the ticket form. If they are this hard to reach out to for a major issue, I don't want to be dealing with them when they have control of my website!
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They replied back but all they said was
"Hi,
Thanks for the heads up. We'll take a look at that situation.
Amy F"
Did they contact you at all?
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Neither on here nor did they email us back from the support ticket, nor just contact in general for getting the account set up.
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Sounds like an epic fail... ouch.
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Still no contact from them of any sort.
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Ouch again..
I ran into a issue with BlueHost this past week... I went to contact them via chat and was reported to have a 30 minute wait time.... THAT told me there was something going on with the servers and such,.. so I dropped off gave it some time and maybe two hours later things where running normal again.
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How much are you paying? A Simple Orange is just $5.
