After comparing a few web hosting companies, I selected Dreamhost and registered a hosting account last Sunday. Dreamhost has good word of mouth based on my online research. However, from the very first second when I became their customer, the site loading speed was very slow – it takes more than 10s to respond to any request. I’ve submitted several support tickets asking them to fix this problem. It’s been 48 hours and the speed is still dead slow. I can’t do anything but wait.

Speed is the most important thing for any website. If they can’t solve the problem soon, I will leave for another hosting company.