One reason to host with Dreamhost would be their entertaining monthly newsletter. Here is an excerpt:

Block those nasty robot spiders NOW, before they spider your website and crash your server… and DECADES before they invade your home and eat your babies.

If you’re interested in actual information of value about Dreamhost as a hosting service… think of it as a utopia where you can control pretty much everything you could want. No more calls to Tech Support begging for them to do something you could easily do yourself. And yet, you could still call… you know, if you’re lonely. I get the idea that they are lonely too.

More to come.