I run a sports MESSAGE board site and am wanting to LESSEN my costs a bit. I pay 7 bucks a month for ad free and url snap 13 bucks a year for my domain. I think I can do better but am still hesitant about pulling the trigger. Some sites offer a free domain and have said that I could transfer mine to them but would it be free? Even if they charge and offer it at a lower price and host my site for 7 bucks or less it would seem to still benefit me? Any input?
I've used lunarpages in the past. They give you a free domain for life (restrictions probably apply) andits about $7 a month. Free setup too. I've been really impressed with their offerings.
www.lunarpages.com
Could you show your site address? What led you to pick this company over others?I don't have a site anymore. But they have anything that I would've ever needed.
350GB storage/3.5TB transfer
unlimited EMAILS, subdomains, parked domains, MySQL Databases, FTP Accounts, etc.
check out their basic hosting plan: http://www.lunarpages.com/basic-hosting/
or their business hosting plan: http://www.lunarpages.com/business-hosting/
Thanks for the info, I had already checked them out. There are several with rhe same credentials and it's hard to decide.

http://www.hosting-review-center.com/webhosting/hosting-reviews.aspx?ad=2yahoo_static&OVRAW=web%20hosting%20free%20domain&OVKEY=web%20hosting%20free%20domain&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=5827345522&OVKWID=50067023022I'd be leery of any hosting service that offers free domain registration through them.  You'd better be sure you won't have problems transferring your domain if you are not satisfied with their hosting service later and you want to switch to another hosting service.

I suggest using GoDaddy.com for your domain registration.  Their fee for most domains is $8.95/yr.  And, you can lower you monthly hosting cost a bit by switching to another service.  I'll suggest http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/; their Starter plan is just $4/mo.  You can easily INSTALL forum software on your site VIA their cPanel.  They have no setup fee and you can pay month-by-month.Thanks soybean, I'll give them a look.