Hosting frustrations
I've been using Dreamhost as my webhost for just over a year now, and I'm generally very, very happy with them. The prices are pretty good, and the features they offer are great and totally easy to use. However, I think I must have at least brief outages of service once a month or so. And every so often I have significant (6+ hour) outages.

This is a pain, especially when it falls on a blog update day like today. This means that I can't post stuff, which throws me off. It's not a big deal. I mean, I don't expect my 'audience' to be angry or anything, but often it means that I don't have a chance to do final edits until Tuesday morning (or later), and thus I don't look at my Thursday post until Wednesday, which results in some dang crappy posts.

I wonder: is this fairly average for webhosts? Having this many outages? Is it even regular for Dreamhost, or am I just on a crappy shared server that crashes all the time?

Thomas