I have been looking around for different hosting sites. Today I found one which seemed like a reasonable deal. I then read some reviews on the web about them. Try searching for the name of them with the word lousy or sucks. If you get pages of complaints back from the search engine that is probably a good indicator.

My site comes with my ISP and gives me 100MB of space and up to 5 e-mail addresses just for having them as an ISP.

I mostly don't like the pop-up ads or banners that are inserted in the "free" web sites. It might be worth paying for a site if that bothers you too.

I would suggest going to www.cnet.com and checking out what they say about web hosting.

Good luck in your search.

- Brian