For personal or non-critical sites, Dreamhost are great. Their reputation stems from the fact that they publish their issues openly on a blog with comments ena

For personal or non-critical sites, Dreamhost are great. Their reputation stems from the fact that they publish their issues openly on a blog with comments enabled and zero moderation (dreamhoststatus.com). So the kicking and screaming that goes on when sites are down (and all shared hosts go down about the same on average) is publicly visible. This both damages their reputation compared to hosts without such a public forum for venting, and strengthens it on the honesty side of things too. I've used them for several years though for non-critical sites and I've been as happy with them as with any other shared host (and I've used quite a few over the years).