Hosting My Iweb-site

I'm a newbie, so please forgive me. I'm attempting to publish some pages with informational stuff, hopefully to gain some click-revenue from running ads. I've found that my pages run fairly slow uploading to my visitors. I've been thinking about hosting my site somewhere else than .mac. Does anyone have a suggestions on how and where would be a good place to host from? or any suggestions on how to speed the upload of my pages up? I do not know much about hosting else where or really publishing much at all any help would be great.
Thanks

In this thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1142025&start=15&tstart=0
...a poster says:
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I use Host Excellence for hosting.....
http://www.hostexcellence.com/index.php/v2/pages.packages
I use Yummy for FTP...
http://www.yummysoftware.com/
and Web Site Maestro for optimizing and uploading updates using "smart handling".....
http://www.tonbrand.nl
..... it also optimizes JPEGs in the latest version.
You can see from the basic Host Excellence plan that you can run 6 domains and up to 300 sub domains within them for about $7 per month.
The good thing about HE is their tech support. If you get stuck they will either tell you how to fix it or do it for you if you ask them? I have never had to wait more than 12 hours for support to get back to me.
To help you cut down on the image sizes and see how long they take to load you can use the excellent freeware application ImageWell....
http://xtralean.com/
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If you want to see how fast his site loads, it's here:
http://www.heese-cadieux.com

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