If you want to play around with forums, some simple web-publishing, etc... ripplehost is great for the money. As rossman said, don't think you're going to get instructions on how to do things from ripplehost though, it's a "you're on your own" sort of host - for the most part. Also, my finding (as a reformed ripplehost member, now addaction member) is that it's not a good place to use for your e-mail... sometimes things just randomly go wierd at ripplehost. Mission critical, your livelihood... keep away from ripplehost. Fun, playing around with this stuff, nothing important = best $9.99 deal in a long time.