Dreamhost are one of the best shared cheap hosting companies around.

This post has the “low down” on them and how to save money with them.

Even at their cheapest levels you get:

• Unlimited hosted domains – Very handy to have from a shared host
• Unlimited sub domains
• 20GB disk space (upto over 80GB, and in some cases constantly upgrading a few GB a week)
• Minimum of 1TB (1,000,000 MB) transfer (bandwidth), upto over 2.2TB – depending on what deal you select
• 3000 mailboxes (Email accounts)
• A full 97 day money back guarantee
• 24 hour technical support over email – normally I get replies within 2-4 hours at most
• Online web based control panel – although some complain about it, use it for 15 mins and you get the hang of it. I am quicker at using it than cpanel x!
• Multiple shell and ftp users – from 75 to 775 users!
• Set up new users and if you want, resell some space you are not using (I do this with a few friends – although I just don’t charge them!)
• POP and SMTP access
• You actually get one free domain regestration (for one year), with free whois protection – hiding your address
• Custom dns with all domains reg’d at dreamhost
• Support for: PHP 4, PHP 5, full unix shell, crontab, ruby on rails, ssi, cvs repository, ssl certificates (free with some packages)
• Quicktime streaming
• VPN access (with some packages)
• One click installs for things such as Wordpress (includes loads of themes as well so you don’t have to download them then upload them and install them), phpBB forums, ZenCart (e-commerce), Joomla, MediaWiki (same software as Wikipedia.org) and more
• Unlimited mysql databases

And more…

Although, yes, I am hosted with them and links in this post are affiliate links to save you money I 100% reccommend them – I have a LOT of domains, LOTS of sites and use several hosts, and Dreamhost are by far the best.

You can save upto $95 by using HOST95 as your promotional code. This page has a table on it showing how much you save – often $95!

As you can see, it is well worth using it. It is no scam, no rip off. Just a great deal!

Also, if you donate money through dreamhost to charity, they match that amount (so donate $10 and the charity gets $20!).

There is a bit more information at this page about how to save money when signing up for dreamhost.