Personal experience: Dreamhost is the suck. What I saved in hosting fees, I lost due to downtime ("oops, our bad") and absolutely no customer support to call an

Personal experience: Dreamhost is the suck. What I saved in hosting fees, I lost due to downtime ("oops, our bad") and absolutely no customer support to call and wonder what the hell is going on. I did some research into hosting, so did an Information Architect friend of mine, and Slicehost has got a good blend of price/reliability. Dreamhost, if you're doing anything with a decent margin or lifetime value of a customer, is a big no-no. Really big. Important business mantra: "Always pay well for money." Hosting that's up falls into this category.