Who to use for website hosting/building?

[HBARleatherneck]

Went with Wix. They were at the top of almost all of the lists I found.

[EvilRhino]

I'm trying Ehost.com I think it was $99 for 3 years with domain. I think there's an email with it but I haven't bothered with it. The last time my email was tied to my domain, most servers blocked it due to the good ol days of spam.

[HoneyBadger]

I believe Squarespace can do all of that for a pretty reasonable price. They make the design portion super easy and the shopping cart stuff is really simple to set up.

[Musashi]

I will second squarespace as they are easy to use and you can usually find 10% discounts on some of the podcasts. Let me see if I can find one. They do not provide email though.

[Adam]

I will second squarespace.

[Lars]

I use Weebly for my site. Don't remember what I paid but it wasn't bad. Has options for email and web store. It was very easy to setup and keep maintained.

[TFOGGER]

I use 1 and 1 for hosting, but my website is built by a powersports specific 3rd party vendor. I administer and maintain my own email (POP3) hosted on 1 and 1.

[Delfuego]

You get what you pay for. You want the cheapest, that's what you will get. If you're serious about starting a business; then invest a little bit and it will pay off in the future.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Hbar - I am using sequoia out of California to completely revamp my website and do the SEO. They seem to do good work, if you want their contact info let me know. I'm not sure how much they'd charge for an online store, but that'll at least get you someone you can talk to about it.

[9mmJ]

I assume this is for your store. I have been in e-commerce for 8 years. Used Etsy, Wix, Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify and sites built from scratch. Wix is very limiting in what you can do but cheap, Shopify is my favorite platform and the best thing out there right now. Super easy to use, cheap and almost no limits to customizing it. You can hire Shopify's approved techies to do custom code at very reasonable rates. It is very easy to get a great looking site just using what they have ready to plug in.

PM me if you want to talk about it

[coyotescope]

I second what 9mmJ said--some of those site builder sites are pretty limiting. The CSPDSWAT.org site is on Drupal and I believe they're running it on some fairly affordable hosting. With the exception of limited databases and memory, you can do just about anything with it. I setup the first year of my own site with GoDaddy and Drupal for only about $60 and now I'm on BlueHost and I spent about $80 for three years of hosting there. You can make professional sites with Wordpress and Drupal for fairly low-cost that will get you above the site builder sites out there. Especially with free themes and open source plugins. Essentially what 9mmJ said, but he's right--you can up the professionalism without dropping a lot of dough.