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I have been using dreamhost for about 6 months or so now.
I wasn't expecting a lot when i signed up, i used a coupon code freely available on the net and only ended up paying about $9 for a whole year.
Considering you get one free domain registration included with that, you get a domain and a stupidly large amount of space and bandwidth for what it generally costs to buy a new domain.
It sounded too good to be true, and i wasn't sure what to expect. For the first few months it was flawless and i didn't have any problems.
Then suddenly it all went to pieces, during the daytime my sites simply wouldn't load. It wasn't due to server load that never really went over about 5 at peak times, it just seemed that their network couldn't cope. At all.
This went on for quite some time, but the dreamhost staff did seem to be trying everything they could and a lot of the continuation looked like it was simply down to bad luck.
They are very open about their issues though, pretty detailed reports of their happenings can be found at dreamhoststatus.com
Things have been fixed for a few weeks now though and i haven't had any more problems, they have just gone mad and increased their packages by a crazy amount and upgraded existing customers too like Lucas said.
Overall, for the price you pay they offer an amazing deal. They have had their problems but they have all eventually been sorted out, they have been in the business a long time too.
Oh, another issue i've seen a few people complain about is the restricted PHP version that is in place by default, however you can compile your own PHP install to get around any problems you might have with theirs.
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