Tips for signing up with a new host for iWeb

Question

I'm probably going to go with GoDaddy since I have my domain with them.  I am expecting a salescall from them to set up the transfer next week-might as well go to the end of June with Mobile Me.
What's the most I need to buy for hosting one simple website that has worked perfectly well with iWeb? I don't want to buy anything extra that I don't need thru them. I see SSL for an additional $69 but I never used it before and doubt I'Il need it now. Don't really know what it is!
When I look at the iDisk storage space on iWeb, it says I have used 73.7MB of space, so it's not a big site, if that helps.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I just did this today with Machighway and am very happy. It was super-easy to publish my site directly using iweb, and it looks great. They provide very clear, user-friendly instructions tailored for iweb users, and I had no error messages or any sort of problems at all with the process. Everything in iweb displays perfectly, and I can't tell the difference between that and Mobileme. Seamless.
The price was very good, less than $40 per year to host my site plus I get a few email addresses. This is less than half the cost of Mobileme. They have 24-7 phone support and they speak perfect English (I called the with a question before signing up).
Contrast that with two other services I tried yesterday. First, Macmate. This is a UK company that does not have phone support after-hours (I tried calling them last night at 10PM, no luck). You have to download a program onto your computer to use it. After you install the program, its asks you for a password. I typed in the password I set up when I signed up for the service, but it didn't work. I emailed tech support and the next day they told me they had reset my password "to the one you used when you signed up". I tried it again, still didn't work. I asked them for a refund, and they immediately issued one, no questions asked.
My domain name was already registered at Namecheap.com, so I decided to give them a try. Huge mistake. I could not connect to their server using FTP in iweb. Nothing but error messages. They have no phone support, and if you try to use live chat you get someone who cannot type a sentence in English. I swear one of their instructions was "Please provide me with the * in case they are". They waited a full five minutes to respond every time I typed something. After two hours of following their instructions doing something called "traceroute" in terminal, I decided to try to get my money back. They are being resistant, so it looks like I am going to have to eat the annual fee which was $47.
Of the three hosting services I tried, Machighway was the cheapest, the most user-friendly, had the best support, clear instructions specifically for iweb users, and, best of all, it worked. Highly recommend.