I've been with Dreamhost for a couple of years. I have a lot of sites with them. It's fine. It's very trendy to bash them. I have had a private server with

I've been with Dreamhost for a couple of years. I have a lot of sites with them. It's fine. It's very trendy to bash them. I have had a private server with them for the last year, and recently added a 2nd one for a higher priority app I'm working on, as I don't want any of my other sites to crash it. The private servers are cool. I can crank up my server size using an API (or from their main panel) from the low of 150MB of memory for $15/month up to 4000MB of memory for $400/month. I enjoy this sort of flexibility. Last night, I just upgraded from Apache to lighttpd, which unloads your processor still more. (They just rolled out lighttpd as an option yesterday) I've been down a bit, usually for less than 6 hours at a time, and some of this was due to things I caused, like moving a https id from one private server to another. Enjoy them, they're great.