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I've been using an account on a shared-server at eBoundhost.com for just over a year now, and I am very happy. Their prices are quite competitive, but their customer support is absolutely outstanding. For example, I neglected to apply a security patch to one of my PHP applications, and someone began exploiting an opening. Most hosting companies would just inactivate the entire account when they detect something like that, but the eBoundhost folks identified which application it was and disabled only what was necessary. You won't get that treatment from GoDaddy (although I have a number of friends who are very happily hosted there).
Unless you expect huge traffic (100,000s of visitors per day), a shared host is the most cost-effective way to get a custom web-presence. Dedicated servers or virtual private servers (VPS) tend to run in the $25-$100/month range, while shared-hosting is $5-$10/mo.
I think I have a disk limit of 200Gb, and 25Gb of network bandwidth per month for something like $8 (those are fairly typical values for shared hosting plans).
The main URL for my site is: http://geoff-s.net/
I also host my professional site as a sub-domain on the same account: http://moving-target-photos.com/
Cheers,
Geoff S.
P.S. whatever you do, avoid a company called Fuitadnet. I was hosted there for a few years and they are perhaps the worst hosting company in the world (and don't take my word for it, check any of the hosting review sites).
Edited on Jan 29, 2008 at 04:03 PM
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but Linux tends to be a more stable platform for shared web-hosting - it's almost always cheaper for hosting since most Linux distributions are cheap (some free) compared to windows. It's just a different operating system to windows... like the mac is different from windows.