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And I'd recommend them to ANYBODY.
Allow me to explain:
The very fact that they are unprofessional is probably the number one reason I like them. When they fuck up, they are right up front admitting it in plain english, detailing exactly what went wrong, whose fault it was, and what they're doing to fix it. I'd say that's exactly what OUGHT to be done, but in any "professional" company, there will be some smooth lie to cover up what happened, explain it as an "occasional service interruption" and move on. You'll never know why something happened, or what the chances are of it happening again. With Dreamhost, I'm always aware, and even if there are major weaknesses in their networks, at least I know what they are and what they're doing to fix it. (And who - by name - I can yell at for fucking it up.)
They have more downtime than I've seen from other hosts, but I'm willing to chalk this up to "circumstances beyond their control". Why? Because when shit went south, they explained what it was. Their datacenter wasn't up-front with them about its capabilities, the building generators weren't terribly reliable, all kinds of things that were out of their control. Sure it sucked for any Dreamhost user during that time, but it could have happened to any host, and THIS one had the temerity to level with us and explain exactly what happened.
And the oversold plans? Actually a feature. Honestly, I don't think I'd host an actual application on one of their $7/month plans, but that's because that's not what those are FOR. The cheapie plans are there for my personal website and my blog. They're there for someone who wants a site to sell handcrafted things. They're there for someone who wants cheap imagehosting for forum signatures, avatars, or funny pictures for friends.
Dreamhost sold me exactly what I expected, and has taken the time to routinely update me on the issues affecting them.
Now, if only Josh could get the newsletter out any faster than a month behind...
(Hm, before that gets misinterpreted, that's a running joke at Dreamhost, that each newsletter is dated for the month previous. They do like poking fun at themselves, another plus as far as I'm concerned.)
Immediately the web server they gave me went down. Half an hour later, it is up again, but won't properly serve files:
$ curl http://danielerrey.com/lib.js
curl: (18) transfer closed with 19097 bytes remaining to read
Sigh.
I sent a support request, but this is not a very good first impression.
Actually, I have them and I'm pretty happy.
It's definitely not suited for heavy web apps (SugarCRM, notably, is painfully slow), but it does fine with things like Wordpress.
When users (like me) are relying on the server to host email accounts, mailing lists, and subversion repositories, downtimes like that are just absurd.
Good thing though is that I absolutely love Slicehost, and for only a little bit more $/mo, I have a VPS solution that hasn't gone down even once since I signed up. The only downside is that setting up your own email server is a pain in the ass... :P
But claims like "Storage: UNLIMITED + 50GB!" put me off a little. Aside from it being a physical impossibility, I don't even need 1GB of storage. What's Dreamhost actually like? They seem to be trying to tempt people in with big numbers on the homepage, which is the sort of marketing used most often by ripoff merchants.
A friend of mine blogs about his experience with the two here: http://www.danshafer.com/onemind/node/807
And thats how they can afford to give 95%.