> I am embarrassed to report that I have been in DreamHost customer for over 10 years for hosting some small and unimportant personal projects

No need to be embarrassed. I used DH for many many years, starting probably about 13-14 years ago. Since moved to Linode and DO in order to fully control a stack even for small personal things, however fond memories are having a managed environment for a very low price, wildcard emails, bundled domain, and mostly, sticking to their promise which got me to sign-up in the first place: any new pricing plan will be offered to existing customers at the same rate as new customers, which 10-15 years ago was almost unheard of.