I know how frustrating it can be doing research on things and finding out in the end of the ( hidden costs ). Below I broke down information, including the prices concerning hosting.

I host my web sites that I create on Angelfire, due mostly because of the low cost, the reliability of the server and also best fits the needs for me to create your company a great business site. Angelfire was started in 1995, then sold to whowhere.com in 1998. They owned it now for 4 months and just recently Terra Lycos purchased it and is now worldwide. Below I have broken down the payment of hosting a website on Angelfire.

Angelifre hosts a FREE website, the problem with this is you constantly have ads that are forced upon you as you search the site. For example, two business sites I created, one had chosen the FREE website without any payments ( Ultimate Edge LLC ) and the other pays a small monthly fee for an ad free site ( FRS PT CLINICS ). I would like you to view these and you will see the website that pays the for an ad free site is faster loading due to no interuptions with the forced ads.

ANGELFIRE PLUS PLAN CHARGES:

This plan is for an ( ad free website ). The Angelfire Plus plan is auto-billed once a month at $4.95. This charge is for a 28-day billing period. If you sign up for a Plus Plan the 29, 30th or 31st of the month, you will be charged a pro-rated charge for those days. If you sign up on the 29th of a month that has 31 days, for examle, you will be charged $4.95 plus 48 cents off the remaining 3 days of the month. An example:

Angelfire is on a 28-day billing period in that your billing date will always fall on days 1 - 28 of the month. If you sign up on the 29th - 31st of the month the following happens:

A - Your billing date will be the 1st of the next month

B - You will be billed for next month plus the prorated remainder of the current month. Example: On December 29th, you sign up for Angelfire Plus service of $4.95 per month, you are charged for Dec 29th - Dec 31st. Since December is a 31-day month the prorated daily charge is (.15 cents )($4.95 devided by 31 ).

The total prorated charge for the 3 days remaining in the month of December therefore is .48 cents. You are charged for the entire month of January = $4.95 plus .48 cents.

Total charge at signup is $4.95 + .48 cents + a one time set up fee of $10.00 = Total of $15.43. Your billing date is January 1st, next billing date would be Feburary 1st.

So your payments for hosting will be a total of $5.43 a month. This averages out to a total of $65.16 a year which is very reasonable compared to other Hosting sites that meets all the criteria as Angelfire.