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Cloudways vs DreamHost: which is more reliable? (2026)
DreamHost is more reliable than Cloudways, scoring 82.1 vs 32.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Cloudways reported 12 incidents and DreamHost reported 9, with effective uptime of 93.38% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Cloudways | DreamHost |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 32.0 | 82.1 |
| Rank (web hosts) | #9 | #4 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 93.38% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 12 | 9 |
| Partial / major outages | 5 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1d 3h | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Cloudways and DreamHost differ
- Cloudways reported 33% more incidents than DreamHost over the last 90 days (12 vs 9).
- Cloudways had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for DreamHost.
90-day uptime
Cloudways
DreamHost
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Cloudways incidents
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 6d 21h
- MaintenanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 3h 22m
Cloudways Website & Affiliate portal unavailable
Affected: Cloudways Home
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 2d 3h
Critical PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities - Monitoring & Mitigations Underway
Affected: Cloudways Cloud Platform Console, Cloudways Cloud Platform Service
- Major outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 23h 46m
- Major outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 1d 6h
Rackspace Webmail Login & Mailbox Provisioning Issues
Affected: Rackspace Email
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 13d 5h
Degradation Impacting Vultr Server Operations
Affected: Cloudways Cloud Platform Service, Vultr
Recent DreamHost incidents
- Major outageNov 1, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Partial outageOct 30, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Major outageOct 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Investigating an incident affecting File Manager and Webmail
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 17, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Other web hosts to consider
- Namecheap Hosting · #1 · 100% uptime
- Flywheel · #2 · 100% uptime
- Pressable · #3 · 100% uptime
- GoDaddy Web Hosting · #5 · 99.49% uptime