Getting Started with DreamHost
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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.
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And it is past midnight and..... zero contact from DreamHost. It has now been a day and a half, we've submitted a ticket, we've waited when they told us to wait, even PR was contacted and they just can't be bothered to do anything.
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Looks like you weren't the only one. Someone else on Facebook complained of something similar.
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Just checked, they tried to charge us too! Looks fishy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just checked, they tried to charge us too! Looks fishy.
This is really odd. They used to have such a good reputation.
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The charge has not gone completely through, yet, so we cannot begin the process of disputing it. I'm pretty unhappy that they pull this "wait three hours and don't bother us" bullsh!t, then don't bother to set up the account (accidents happen, but having that three hour hold once they've charged you is not cool, they don't warn you, they just don't set up your account), then failing everything don't refund nor provide notice that something was wrong, then don't have any way to contact them except through a rather crappy ticketing interface that demands inappropriate information from you and then they don't respond to that either. When an issue is wrongful billing for services not delivered, you freaking respond.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just checked, they tried to charge us too! Looks fishy.
Yeah and this really doesn't look good on them https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-145568.html
"Thank you for contacting us for support. I see that our approvals team sent you an email update. They have your reply ticket and will update you as soon as possible, thank you for your continued patience it is appreciated, "
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@thecreativeone91 looks to be how things are working there right now. Glad that we caught this when we did and did not actually get our sites moved over to them. Would have really sucked to learn that they were like this after being somewhat beholden to them.
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It's the end of day on Monday, still not a peep from Dreamhost. Not so much as an email.
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@scottalanmiller They deleted posts on Facebook about billing issues today. Also noticed if you overpaid they said they don't refund it's only a credit on your account.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller They deleted posts on Facebook about billing issues today. Also noticed if you overpaid they said they don't refund it's only a credit on your account.
Sounds like these guys have moved into the "crooks" category. That's not a mistake at that point, that's covering up what they are doing. We will be filing a complaint with American Express.
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At this point, I think it would be crazy to even think of doing business with them. They've fallen into the "avoid at all costs" bucket.
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Thanks for checking them out.
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Someone had to take the bullet to see how they were
It's sad, we had no idea that they were having problems. This came as a total surprise. We've been hearing good things about them for years.
