Web Hosting Site Recommendations

Can anybody out there recommend a decent web-hosting site?

I'm trying to learn ASP.NET 4, and part of that has been putting together a website for "Middle Ripsley FC", a ficticious English non-league football club.

I do have it up on a free site at http://aspspider.org/middleripsleyfc/ but that sticks a nasty banner at the top of the page every four seconds, and in any case, only seems to last for 90 days.

I don't anticipate much traffic at all for the site, so I want something cheap.

I also want a site where setting up the website is straightforward. I've been with two (365ezone.com and goddaddy.com) and I've found them both a nightmare in terms of trying to figure out what exactly I was supposed to do. I've already taken advantage of the "no quibble refund" on one, and godaddy will almost certainly go the same way.

Part of the the problem with godaddy is that I have an mdf database, and godaddy won't accept them, and demands all databases be set up from scratch and data imported via csv. There no way of exporting an mdf database/table as a csv file, so I look to be screwed there.


What gets me is that the free site was actually really simple to use - pretty much just copy the stuff over, modify the connection strings and go.

Godaddy, on the other hand, seems to see its main priority as selling apps and other add-ons that I don't want, while having a support team incapable of anything more than cut & paste answers.


So.... anyone out there who found a decent cheap hosting site, and found it easy to use without having had much experience of using hosting sites before?

 

Thanks.

I actually found a different site (AccuWebHosting) after cancelling with Godaddy because the price was very good and it seemed to offer what I want, but I'll find out when the account is set up.

I knocked Godaddy on the head after their tech support "experts" advised me to to the very exact thing I was telling them I'd done but wasn't working.

I even included my web.config file and said "look! I've put the code in at the end there, as you suggested" and they just replied "try putting these lines in your web.config..."