i hope it's not too late, well last year i signed up both netfirm (with the /max discount = $10~ / yr) and also dreamhost ($22.4 / yr with promo code) ... the result is i ended up renewing dreamhost at full price and dumped netfirms. Netfirms is just very slow, their ssh is jailed so much that you can't do anything useful (maybe you dont need it), their sql servers are also slow as hell.