Once you have your web site built you'll need a place to host it.  A host (or server) is the computer that your web site lives on.  Hosting plans are available from thousands of different companies and it can be very confusing to find a good host that gives you all the features you need without a lot of hype and overcharging.  

You can find seemingly great deals for $4.95/month that nickle and dime you with various other charges for extra memory, bandwidth, email addresses, etc.  Also, these cheap hosting plans usually place your site on a slow, overloaded server with too many other sites so your site performance really suffers.  On the other hand, you can find hosts that will offer you extra high speeds, dedicated servers, co-location and all sorts of other features for as much as $120/month.

After experience with 6 different hosts, I've learned a lot about these different options and have finally found a host that offers all the important features I've come to value in a host and none of the needless hype.  I pay for my own server on which I host  my clients' sites so that they get a great hosting plan for a very reasonable cost of $9.95/month.  

If you would prefer to take care of your hosting account independently, I can recommend a highly rated hosting company that I've done business with called Host Gator.  Host Gator offers shared hosting accounts with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and all the essential features you will need for $9.95/month.  They have been consistently rated at the top of the hosting company pile by many major web master magazines, web sites, etc.  Click here to view Host Gator's hosting plans.