Website Domain hosting?

I know there have been threads on here about starting your own website but I can't seem to find them.

I have procrastinated long enough. I need a website for my artwork (especially now that Cat Fancy magazine has published one of my pieces!) I need otknow what a good hosting/server site would be. Someone suggested GoDaddy, and I looked... their prices seemed awesome until I got to the final price. The $4 monthly fee became $127 for one year in the blink of an eye -- BEFORE I even added the $4 montly charge.

Is there anyone out there that will be able to host my website, offer the website templates and web builders at an affordable price? Seriously, I don't mind paying $8-10 a month as long as its honestly just $8 a month and no hidden little things that make iut $8 a month plus another $100 a year to start it. I need easy to use and affordable!

Anyone have any trusted sites they use themselves?

I've used ipowerweb.com for at least two years now for 3 different accounts. I have never had a problem and their annual fee is their monthly fee x 12. ;)

One of my sites is up for renewal and the price is $7.95 a month or $95.40 a year. I don't remember how the domain registration works, but if I remember right, since I pay on an annual basis, the domain registration fee is included. I haven't looked at their web site lately to confirm all this, but I've been happy with them - never had a problem - and will be renewing.

I got my domain and hosting from Magicomm.net. I pay $9 annually for the domain, and $5.95 for two gigs(!!!) of space, 30 gigs of bandwidth as well as all the usual stuff. Before I switched to another plan, I was paying $1/month for 200mbs of space I believe. Still way more than most people ever need. The support is pretty good and downtime is very rare! I've been really pleased with them! :)

I use my internet provider (Cincinnati Bell/phone company) and it's free. However, one account per customer is only draw back.
I have seen good deals with Yahoo.

I use Network Solutions. Have heard terrible things about GoDaddy.

We use Lunar Pages, and have been pretty happy with them overall.

Blue Host
(Copied the info right from their site)

Our professional Web Hosting plans include all the features you are looking for at the best possible price.

15 Gigabyte Hosting Space (NEW!) - auto upgrade, old was 10G
Host 6 Domains on 1 Account!!!
2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
400 GIGS of Transfer (NEW!) - bows down
SSH (Secure Shell)
SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
2000/2002/2003 Front Page Extensions
Free Domain Forever! - bows down
Free Site Builder (NEW) - I use Drupal
24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support - They are really GOOD! I call them for all sorts of help since I'm hopeless at setting it up hehe

More detailed info

if you go with the 12 months or the 24 months you get free set up & free domain.. if you go with 3 months or 6 months is 30 set up & 10 domain.

I went with the 24months :)

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Originally Posted by catnapper

I know there have been threads on here about starting your own website but I can't seem to find them.

I have procrastinated long enough. I need a website for my artwork (especially now that Cat Fancy magazine has published one of my pieces!) I need otknow what a good hosting/server site would be. Someone suggested GoDaddy, and I looked... their prices seemed awesome until I got to the final price. The $4 monthly fee became $127 for one year in the blink of an eye -- BEFORE I even added the $4 montly charge.

Is there anyone out there that will be able to host my website, offer the website templates and web builders at an affordable price? Seriously, I don't mind paying $8-10 a month as long as its honestly just $8 a month and no hidden little things that make iut $8 a month plus another $100 a year to start it. I need easy to use and affordable!

Anyone have any trusted sites they use themselves?

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Go to globat .com com for their T1 offer i just got set up for 13 months with a free domain name for lifefor $94.50, if you sign up tell em www.all44paws.org sent you.

What did you add for options with GoDaddy? Avoid clicking on the extras offered, and the price stays cheap!

I also use my internet-provider :)