I was taking a look at GT's Create a Website tutorial to see if it would be useful for a Girl Scout I know and noticed his recommendations for paid hosting plans. I shared some of my experiences with him but thought I'd post it here as well, in case any of you are looking for a host.

My husband uses iPower for his club website (which I help him with) and we have routinely had issues where the CSS will not be updated after you FTP it for about 10-15 minutes! This is extremely frustrating, especially before you figure out that it's happening again because you think your changes are not working. Then you do something to rule it out like change the color of one of your styles and see that it has no affect until you go eat lunch and the come back and finally your text is blue or whatever you did. I seem to recall having the same issue where they were not serving up a Javascript library that I had changed. The HTML pages always are current, but the files they reference are not. The price has also definitely gone way up.

I recommend Hostmonster to all my clients, which is actually the same company as BlueHost. Their cpanel is exactly the same and very easy to use. Their customer support, however, is the best I have ever used and they even speak English! Unlimited space and multiple domains supported at no extra charge. The link to them on my page takes you to discounted rate, often 4.95 but sometimes 3.95.

Anyway, I thought I'd share that because I've been very happy with them. I used to have my account there, then moved it to GoDaddy when year 2 was much more expensive (but normal), but GoDaddy required a premium plan for all my subdomains and parked domains, so it didn't end up to be any cheaper. I also HATE GoDaddy because their admin functions are lame and disconnected. Customer service is not good, and I'm sick of looking at Danika Patrick. (You may not be, but I decided that I'm not going to support sex-in-marketing techniques anymore.)

I hope that's useful to someone out there.

As long as we're sharing hosting sites...

I use byet host. Sometimes the letters are run together, byethost. They have excellent, english speaking customer service, available 24/7 through their website. They have free hosting plans, which I started out using, and the cheapie paid plan is only now gone up to $45/year. (It's been $36 for several years in a row.) Also they take care of domain name registration and renewal for me when I renew with them each year, so I don't have to worry about that for as long as I stay with them. The control panel is easy to use and pretty intuitive.

Romana