might look at
http://www.canaca.com
I've been shopping around for a few some hosting for a few sites I've been working on, so far this place has the best deals that I've found, however there are many other very similar places to use. Most of these places are offering the best deals for prepayment of the contract term, in this case if you pay for the gold first year in advance, they give you the second year free (promo, dunno when it ends)
The biggest thing you need to watch for is the bandwidth they allow you to use. Consider that like your cell phone minutes....only every time someone visits your site, they use a small portion of those minutes, multiply that buy # of visits a day/week/month. If you aren't expecting a ton of traffic like this site gets, you would probably be ok with a "limited" amount vs a site like this would benefit from "unlimited" bandwidth.
The next thing is if you are "hosting" a site with a company, 99% don't care how many pages, links, pics, etc you have up as long as its A) legal and b) not porn. They just equate all that into your allocated storage space, so if you are looking at a site that says you can only have 50pics, skip them and move to the next place
I've posted some of the stuff that canaca offeres below, some in bold are sorta what I think you are looking for....notice the # of email accounts, bandwidth, disk space and other bolded items. The invisionboard is basically just like this forum, so you could really do just about anything you wanted.
Anywho, this is just one example, I'm not pushing/advocating this site at all, just posting an example of what you could get for less money/month
If you would like some more places to look at, or have any questions, just let me know.
-Brian
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