friends recommend me a good web hosting company that is affordable?

1) You can try http://www.fiestadomains.com/ They are affordable. They have a Website Tonight feature that provide 1000+ web templates that you can use to create professional looking web site. You don't need to know any HTML and any programming experience in order to use this tool. Their hosting fees ranged from $2.49 a month to $14.99 a month. I am not sure about chatroom; but photo gallery, forums and blogs come with all web hosting service.

2) To tell what you programming languages you need, I need to know what you are trying to accomplish first. If you need your web site to interact with a database, you will need to know some kind of server side programming technology (like ColdFusion, ASP .Net, PHP, ...etc.) and SQL (a database query language).

3) What we, web developers, do is that we would have a test server on our own computers. We would make changes and test on our own computers. When we are ready, we will then transfer the files over to the production server. The Website Tonight feature that I mentioned in item I is only for the web templates; this feature does not include database or anything like that. So, if you want to manage your web site (with a database), you will need to set up a test server somewhere.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact me.

I am currently hosting my websites with bluehost and I am happy with their customer support, reliability and also the speed of my websites.

I personally recommend bluehost if you are looking for an affordable and reliable web hosting provider.

Give a look at

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If you like to create websites (usually you will end up more than 1 website, I got more than 100 websites in about 6 months' time), go for multiple web hosting services where you could host all your websites in one account.

I would like to suggest following webhosting which I use, they are excellent.

Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/

They offer hosting of "unlimited domains" and you will get massive webspace of 1500000 MB (1500 GB ). They only charge $5.95/month and they offer "a free Domain Name" and installing service called "Fantastico". By using Fantastico, you could create own forum, photo gallery, shopping cart (e-commerce),your own auction site and your own blogs within few seconds. They also offer "Free Website Builder" as well.

Visit the site to check details.

Hostmonster http://www.hostmonster.com/track/ryukenden/

More the list of BEST WEB HOSTING sites visit

http://www.nicewebhosts.com/

http://www.000webhost.com/29700.html

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I use http://www.ehosting.com/ they have always been reliable and professional

http://www.juicyhosting.com/ or http://www.locodomains.com/ , they both are very good