Dathorn is a rather new and small web hosting company. What is really interesting about it is the almost fanatical attitude or the customers. They act like they've found the promised land or something like that. Another thing about this company is that new customers had to stay "in line" because they do not accept new customers unless they're prepared to accommodate them on their servers. Strange, but not really unheard of in the world of web hosting.

If you are a newbie it might be good to look elsewhere though. This is what the owner himself (Andrew) said on WHT on one occasion: "Now, not to scare of potential customers, but if you are indeed a newbie, we likely aren't the best choice unless you are willing to learn on your own or from our forums." (this is his original post.)

Note: Although not noticeable from what you read on this page as it's been created a while ago, some customers have complained about a certain lack of flexibility and even rudeness from the part of the owner. I'd just call it a very direct approach.

Here are some of the customers' reviews that I've found at WebHostingTalk.com:

Thread Title: Dathorn offers more for less?
Thread Author: MA-Kadiwal

Web Hosting Review author: Bios
Yeah I am with Dathorn and they have been great - I download much faster then any other host I have been on.

Web Hosting Review author: RossMAN
I've had a resellers account with dathorn for about 5 months, uptime has been awesome, speeds and reliability have been top notch. One thing I haven't really tried out is their support, I've submitted just a few basic tickets all of which were answered promptly with helpful replies.

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Thread Title: reseller types.. amhosting / dathorn
Thread author: idoubleL

Web Hosting review author: bloom
I was with Dathorn for nine months before moving to a dedicated server. They were the best hosting company I've dealt with until I switched to Server Matrix (who thus far have exceeded my expectations in a major way). I would recommend them to anyone looking for reseller hosting. They're the best value for your money.

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Thread Title: Question about Dathorn
Thread Author: Jon FB

Web Hosting Review author: fog
I'm only a customer of a Dathorn customer, but I've gotta say, they rock. The only downtime I've noticed* has been a ~10 minute window when they rebooted it after upgrading the kernel, which was announced ahead of time. Great prices, and not at all what you'd expect for something so cheap. (...) If you go into their forums (link on the main page of their site), they link to Alertra stats for all their boxes. (Few places seem willing to do this?) My box has apparently been unreachable a couple other times, but I've never noticed it.

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Thread Title: VERY Disappointed with Dathorn
Thread and web hosting review author: bluephoenix
My comments: It turns out it's not only Dathorn's fault. I recommend you to read the thread.

After reading all the great things people had to say a bout Dathorn we got an account with them. We paid promptly and got an e-mail from Paysystems verifying the payment. 3 days later no contact from Dathorn. So I e-mailed them. (...)

Dathorn_ADT (the owner of Dathorn) replies
(...) Clearly there was a problem with the customer's mail servers which we cannot help. This is also evident in the fact that we never once received such e-mails early on regarding his or her account. The server that our e-mail runs on has run flawlessly now for months and we've not had any issues with it. (...)

Web hosting review author: Vamp22 (intriguing nickname, don't you think :-)
I just got my 2nd reseller account with Dathorn, after 5 crappy hosts, this one rocks. Been with Dathorn for about 4 months now, and I LOVE it!!! When you purposely attack another competitor, be ready to lose some customers. When I see other companies bashing other others, it makes me think much less of them.

Web Hosting Review author: richy
(...) I'm happy ish with dathorn, I was far happier before restrictions and I'm half looking at moving elsewhere if a good offer shows up or things get worse but I think I'll see how things progress at Dathorn. This is hopefully a minor hiccup rather then a sign of a more serious flaw in the business. It will teach me not to go on holiday for 3 weeks lol (...)

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Thread Title: crediblehost vs dathorn Vs vshosting
Thread Author: exipnos

Web Hosting Review author: timh
(...) I signed up with crediblehost and dathorn, both on the strength of recommendations in this forum. I don't have any experience with vshosting. I've found dathorn to be really quick with support, crediblehost less so on account of a small amount of downtime and an apache misconfiguration that they couldn't fix, although they were fine otherwise.
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Thread Title: Headache to choose Melitaweb.net or Dathorn.com!
Thread author: Vlink

Web Hosting Review author: Tiago
I have been with dathorn for the last 3 Months. Support is good and fast. I got my tickets answered in few minutes. Uptime is also very good! And Andrew will keep you up to date in server issues. They could be more expensive than you think, because they don't allow overselling.

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Thread Title: Dathorn
Thread author: jtorres

Web hosting review author: Altheon
I have been a customer for several months now and have had a positive experience all around. Uptime has been solid and when I did have a question the support was surprisingly fast. What I really like are the forums where the owner lets us know about any potential problems, i.e. rebooting a server etc... Overall I would recommend them. If you are planning on reselling space, just be aware that the over-selling option is disabled.

Web hosting review author: kohashi
I love dathorn. My server has had 100% uptime since I joined. I haven't even been to their site in weeks, and when I did its only for the forum, never any trouble. I have about 50 domains there right now and haven't noticed a hitch. I think you should be fine :-)

Web hosting review author: timh
I agree you should be FINE! 100% uptime for me so far, and all support requests answered rapidly by Andrew.

Web hosting review author: fshagan
I'm at Dathorn, and we had about 18 minutes of downtime in July on the server I'm on (based on Alertra). I also set up a monitor (for free) at http://www.easymonitor.com, which checks every 11 minutes. It didn't show as much outage as the Alertra reports, so I suspect Dathorn has Alertra checking more often than every 11 minutes. Just a guess...

Web hosting review author: bytemonster
I've been with Dathorn a few months now and have had limited downtime, quick response to trouble tickets, and most importantly, an honest and open admin who knows his stuff and lays everything out for all to see. I don't need to oversell... I think it's bad business in general, so along with his fabulous prices, I'm a Dathorn fan... I just want to know how to pronounce it! Daat-horn or Dath-orn or what?
Dathorn_ADT (aka Andrew, the owner of Dathorn) replies:
Day-thorn

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Thread Title: Does anyone know how long Dathorn have been in business?
Thread Author: PHPme

Web Hosting Review author: BoneFish
Give Dathorn a shot I think you will be pleased … go and read their forums and you won’t find any disgruntled people …. And yes I’m a customer … a happy one I might add

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If you want to get in contact with Dathorn customers an ask them what they feel about the service you can do that by visiting their forums at forums.dathorn.com

PS. These reviews were collected at the time when the company was added to the "Honest Hosts" list. For more recent reviews feel free to use www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php