Positive Review of DreamHost Shared Hosting by Mike Douglas
Dreamhost have the best features I’ve found for affordable shared hosting : basically they offer all the features competitors have, PLUS you get SSH access and SVN repositories. Cheap (around $8 a month, depending on your payment), full featured (unparred from what I’ve seen). Dream host ? Almost.
Their uptime is the problem that will make me leave them eventually. 2 or 3 times a week my monitoring system warns me about server being down for a couple of minutes or sometimes a couple of hours.
If uptime is critical to you, either because your adsense earnings or your ego cannot stand one hour offline, I would not recommend them. The only reason I’m staying there is because I value more SSH & SVN over those relatively minor outages.