I'll be interested to hear how it goes. I've been trying the new Dreamhost Private Server addition to my Dreamhost account, which is a nice middle ground between a shared server and a dedicated box. Before that, my biggest problem with Dreamhost was that the people I shared a box with would hog the machine and bring my site to a crawl, if not bring it down entirely. I've only been using the private server for 3 or 4 months, but so far it solves that problem by letting me set a comfortable ceiling for my own CPU and memory usage, guaranteeing it to me, and charging me for it.

I've been spoiled by a co-lo setup at work, but like you I'm mostly tired of dealing with that kind of thing. Glad you're enjoying it. :-)