Oh, I don't mistake this for a personal project at all. I didn't think Dreamhost was going to be a solution, I was just illustrating that there's no way I could do what I want to do with a bandwidth to the house solution, especially with my even greater financial restraints, and that moving off the curb got me what I wanted.

Clearly one of your defining needs at the moment is the flexibility and accessibility of keeping your development very close at hand. So, you're right -- high speed to the house is what you need now, and something dedicated elsewhere when you've got something a little more stable and releasable, and the concern is scaling the resources to match.