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DreamHost is currently one of the best low budget host, in my opinion.

More about DreamHost: http://join.dreamhosters.com/

Also, see the page for WebHostingTalk. I put some links to interesting threads.

Examples:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=561673

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=567726

Official DreamHost blog:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/

Unofficial Dreamhosters blog:

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/

DreamHost forum:

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/wwwthreads.pl

DreamHost status page:

http://status.dreamhost.com/

If you want to know the uptime and the LoadAverage of DreamHost, please take a look at the Uptime_At_DreamHost

PowWeb was once very good (with its redundant clustered server), but not any more (they've shown repeated inconpetent and unethical behaviors).