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I use Dreamhost because it's a no-bullshit admin, the price is decent, and I can easily host stuff that doesn't require a VPS or better (which is the majority of my domains) essentially for free.

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+1 on Dreamhost. They also throw in free domain privacy so your personal details aren't plastered all over the net.

Dreamhost kinda sucks. My work has a few domains hosted there and their servers have gone down over 4 times in the past 10 months alone. Support is terrible too.

I've had an account there since 2001. I host 25 domains on it. Downtime is rare, performance is better than any of 10 other shared hosts i've used since 1996, and support is well adequate. If you have serious performance issues you can ask to be moved to a different server. Dunno what people expect for $100 / year, but there's not much better than Dreamhost and my anecdotal evidence is worth more than most because I worked for years at an agency that resold hosting to hundreds of clients via various whitelabel and dedicated hosting services not to mention freelancing for dozens of clients.

Another for Dreamhost. For non-critical hosting they're the best I've experienced (in terms of the uptime-service-price compromise).

I've never had any big issues and my small issues are dealt with swiftly.

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