Also, pick a web hosting company that offers POP3 email accounts. Then you can have your web site and email all part of the same domain, which will be less confusing to people who want to reach you. Similarly, if you become dissatisfied with your hosting company, you can move your domain name over to a new hosting company without changing domain name or email address. I did a pretty thorough search for hosts that support webs created by FrontPage in March, 1998. Some cut-rate hosts offered 5 megabytes of disk storage while others offered as much as 50 megabytes.
Some hosts limit the amount of data transfer.
Of all the low-cost hosting services, SoftCom Canada had the least restrictions, so I chose them. This brings up another point. The hosting company, on the other hand, can be anywhere in the world that has fast access to the Internet. So the fact my host is in another country doesn't bother me. This means I can register my own domain, which is assigned a static IP address.