Reply #2: You can try Yahoo as a host

[kay1864]

They have different pay plans, I think from $10/month on up, which includes use of their servers.

I think they even have different site templates you can use to build your site (sorry, it's been a couple years since I used them).

And at least you know their servers won't go down.

A blog won't get nearly the traffic that a .com will.

Yahoo helps you register your site name as well. I think that's an additional one-time fee of $35 (which goes to whatever group does site domain registration, not Yahoo, but you can pay it through them).