How To Buy Hosting
Here’s a quick guide to buying hosting explaining the issues involved. Here at paulmyatt.com I use and am happy to recommend Westhost who provide a low cost US-based service with superb support 24/7/365.
I would add that if you want to have WordPress installed (on Westhost it comes pre-installed as do many other popular programs) you should choose a package which includes PHP and MySQL. Be warned many basic packages don’t include them! I recommend packages that come with the Apache webserver.