Hidden away somewhere in their wiki is a page about this. It seems they definitley don't want you to run a tracker (due to the CPU usage), but I've seen reports of customers who have been allowed to after asking dreamhost directly for permission. I guess you'd just have to put forward your plan and estimated load and then hope for the best.

I can't speak of godaddy from experience, but I came across similar opinions about godaddy as the ones about dreamhost in the webhosting forums I bothered to check out.

DH don't put ads anywhere on your site (who'd pay for hosting that still has ads ='D). The interface is pretty simple. I'd prefer a cPanel simply because that's what I was used to, but now I know my way around the Dreamhost panel it's basically just as easy (arguably easier) to do things.

Ok, I've decided to register with godaddy. I just subscribed for a simple 1 year contract on a domain name. So if I want to host it on my own server, what do I do? ( Do I have to change something with the name servers?)

Joseph