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[JaredM]

The answer to your quandary is highlighted in bold.

and to expand a little: hosting would have to include IP connectivity, power, cooling, physical security, rent for the space required to house it, costs for technicians to replace it if it fails.

[Jog On]

I use Hostgator who are absolutely top notch, never had a problem with them ever. Very good value for money, good Cpanel with lots of nice options - for $10 a month I can host 99 domains.

They've also got excellent support with one of those chatroom support things - never had to wait more than 1 minute for a real person to come online and answer my question very efficiently.

They're very popular in the webmaster/internet marketing world - I can't recommmend them enough! (and no that's not an affiliate link!), you can see the pricing plans here:

http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml

http://www.hostgator.com/resellers.shtml

http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated.shtml

[woo]

I'm aware of that.
They have access to a big pipeline. They can charge what they like.