Free Hosting is available in a new service launched by Dreamhost called Dreamhost Apps. Its free for life, but only for the first 100 people who sign up. Sign up codes are posted in the first comment under the site's link. Existing Dreamhost customers won't benefit as they already get this service under One Click Installs.
From their post:
"DreamHost Apps customers do miss out on a few perks that paying DreamHost customers take for granted, though. Apps users can just forget about FTP access, SSH access, email, and even technical support.
For all intents and purposes, DreamHost Apps are entirely self-contained. You can install and delete any number of apps through the DreamHost Apps management interface, and you’ll use each Apps’ own web-based interface to make application-level changes."
Been using dreamhost for a few years now with no real issues. Even if you can't get the 100 free spots I'd still recommend them as a good low cost host.