[Rodney]

I haven't heard of blewhost. You may want to try going with a larger company.

LunarPages, pair.com, even godaddy are pretty established names. If you do a search for "hosting" here at the forums, you'll also find some past topics where folks recommended hosts they've used.

 

[Rodney]

There are companies that will tie you in, by giving you a "free" domain name. It sounds like a great deal, but when you read the fine print, they actually own the domain name, in order to tie you into using their hosting services.

I know this happened more often years ago, but I haven't seen it as much recently (since the pricing of domain names has dropped).

But it is good to look at the fine print and make sure you have full control over the domain name, that you are listed as the OWNER/REGISTRANT and that you can control the NAMESERVERS through an online control panel (without having to phone or email the host to make changes to your domain records).