[olug] Web Host Opinion Poll

[Bill Eberly]

I use Dreamhost, and while I have a hard time fully recommending them,
they're a good deal if you're not hosting anything extremely
important. $10 a month, "unlimited" bandwidth, ssh, cron, unlimited
databases, etc. Never had to deal with support, though I've heard a
lot of both good and bad. They used to have pretty bad load issues
with some servers (I'd often see mine with a 30 or 40 load avg),
though they seem to have that fixed now, and they don't seem to take
themselves too seriously (like when they overcharged their customers
nearly $10 million bucks, and then joked about it on their blog:
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops/ ). Other than the
overbilling thing, they haven't been too bad to deal with. You
certainly get what you pay for, but when you don't need much it's not
a bad deal.