So my cousin is getting married, and has decided he wants a website for the event so he can post all the relevant information there, pictures, maps, events, schedules…

Being the official family geek (and by extension the official tech support b****) I have been asked to prepare this website. Well the actual web part of it will be easy, but I need a host. Preferably something incredibly cheap that wont jump out as being tacky (like having a Tripod popup, or Geocities in the URL). Obviously I don’t need a terribly long lease on the domain, and neither bandwidth nor storage will have steep requirements. So does anyone know of a good cheap basic web hosting company they can recommend?

[url]www.unixhoster.com[/url]

[url]www.out-post.net[/url] has cheap domain offerings. You can get a custom package with very small bandwith and space if you talk with him (You don't have to get the base packages).

Domain names however usually only go for a year minimum.

[url]www.godaddy.com[/url] is good for domain names, should you want to invest in one, although you might not for such a short-term site... but it'd be good to keep it in mind for other uses in the future. :p Low price and their control panel has a good array of free functions (like free parking should you need it, and some other gizmos I'll never need or use).

As for webhosting, host yourself. Might be too much to set up for a quickie site (especially if you don't leave your comp on all the time, can't host a website for whatever reason, or if you need to set up PHP and/or MySQL or some other stuff with it too.)

I would love to host it myself, but for two facts... One I have been to lazy to finish my leaning of Unix, and would feel guilty running apache on anything else when i have this beautiful sparq station sitting right next to me. and Two, the fact that my ISP is about a reliable as one of Stan’s deal of the day used cars. Ill look at these other hosts... looks very promising...