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I'm confused. If you've never been a Dreamhost customer, how do you know about all these problems they've been having?


As I said, my knowledge is purely second-hand and should be weighted as such.

Here is how I gathered my knowledge about these problems:
  1. Their own blog and website -- which makes them look:
    • like unprofessional buffoons,
    • quite dismissive of user questions, and
    • unresponsive to user problems.

  2. Several "Hosting Provider Reviews" websites.
  3. Various message boards where people post their good and bad experiences with various providers. You can find horror stories about any hosting provider. But the Dreamhost ones seemed particularly poignant and painful.


But to be honest, #1 alone would have kept me away from them.


As far as big, cheap space goes, GoDaddy offers 100GB for about $6/month
and a 99.9% uptime guarantee -- assuming you don't object to their advertising approach, or their occasional heavy-handed knee-jerk DNS takedowns whenever people complain about your content. (Again not personal experience; I just read about it in the papers.)