I haven't used it enough to comment on its uptime. I know their PHP installation is missing bcmath which I require for generating encrypted keys - so we had to install our own PHP. And I know their provided shopping cart software, miva merchant is a royal pain in the butt. I had to scrap the installation I had set up.

Thier control panel is not the friendliest by a long shot, but gives you shortcuts for a LOT of functionality. The price, storage and bandwidth are great though.

Search for a discount code before signing up. There are tons. Anyone with an account can offer a code with up to a certain dollar discount (that person would keep the a certain amount for themselves or offer the whole thing as a discount). I signed up with $97-off.

I would still recommend it if you need the bandwidth and like the cost. Otherwise, another provider I mentioned a while back, ICDSoft, is very good with decent pricing.

Transfering hosts when your domain is with a registrar is no problem. Moving files is the hardest part actullay. Once you sign up just change the DNS record at the registrar to the servers provided to you by Dreamhost (or whomever).

Bruno