I am convinced, that success with Dolphin is entirely about you you choose to host your site with, Here's a very recent time line regarding ME putting a D7 site online. This is within the last two days. I'm not making this up.

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1. Register 2 new domain names (name.com and name.net) Elapsed time to domains ready for use = 45 minutes T = 0:45

2. Sign up for new hosting account with Terabyte-Hosting.com for new domain name. New web hosting account ready to up[load files within see more 1-1/2 hours, DNS pointers @ domain registrar changed to point to Terabyte name server(s) T= 2:15

3. Upload Dolphin 7.0.1 zip archive to TB hosting and decompress on server. Create Dolphin DB on server, install D7 and modules... elapsed time 30 minutes (I work slow) T= 2:45

4. Purchase new D7 template in market & wait for download to be available.. elapsed time 2 hours (Way too slow, but what could I do but wait) Install new template.. 20 minutes. T= 4:35

Time from registering a new domain name, to live D7 site online with new template and fresh new look: 4 hours - 35 minuites I could have done it in a lot less time, if I didn't have to wait that 2 hours to be able to download the new template. If I throw out the time involved in acquiring and installing the new template, I went from new domain registration to live site online in less than three hours. I've spent the last 48 hours tweaking things.... css adjustments... predefined values... uploading sample media, etc.

It's all about the right hosting people. Get the right hosting for your site, and your problems will be insignificant.