A Stitch in Haste

Anyone have any experience, either directly or anecdotally, with DreamHost, the large web hosting service?

They caught my eye with this:

Web hosting provider DreamHost has recently given its customers the rather unusual advice of choosing Google's Gmail over its own email service, telling them that "it's something Google ... can do better."
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"Just over HALF of all the support requests we get are about email. Everything else we offer, combined, doesn't add up to the amount of trouble, expense, use, and effort that goes into 'simple' old email. And that's kind of funny, because as far as I can tell, almost nobody CHOOSES a web host based on their email features[.]

That's certainly true for me and my blog.

In any case, what a refreshing Atlas Shrugged sort of incident this is. Part of being a "good" (i.e., successful) capitalist is being a "good" (i.e., honest and truthful) capitalist: If you can't provide a service well, then don't provide it — and certainly don't lie about it. That way ruin lies — at least in the long run.

How much of the contempt for capitalism is, I wonder, not based on any evidence of the free market's "fraud, deceit and ruthlessness" but simple projection by its opponents, who are merely afraid that businesspeople are — well, are just like them?