DreamHost Rocks.

Every hosting company has problems. Search Google for “hosting sucks” and you’ll find unhappy customers from almost every cheap hosting company.

It’s fair to say that, if you buy $5.95/mo shared hosting, you’re not going to get the same level of service as with a super-deluxe $250/mo dedicated box at Pricey Servers ‘R’ Us.

In the years we’ve been using DreamHost, they’ve had occaisonal downtime caused by events like brownouts in California.

So why do we still recommend them? DreamHost are – *gasp* – honest about any problems. The DreamHost blog and status blog offer full explanations if anything goes wrong (like here and here).

We believe that’s far better than a host that promises 99.9% uptime but denies all knowledge if your server goes down. So we would say “DreamHost rocks for their honesty as much as their web hosting”, but that’s a bit of a mouthful.

DreamHost costs a mere $69.40/year with our DreamHost promo code.

Be sure to note in your diary when your 97 day money back guarantee is up. If you are not thrilled by DreamHost’s low cost, great service and features, ask for full refund (NB. refunds are not available on PayPal payments, so use your credit card).