I wanted an easy to admin wordpress site and picked dreamhost.com as its just about as turn-key as I needed. Backups, upgrades all work seamlessly. This gave

I wanted an easy to admin wordpress site and picked dreamhost.com as its just about as turn-key as I needed. Backups, upgrades all work seamlessly. This gave me the added benefit that for a fixed price per year, I can host other people's wordpress sites on the same plan. Turns out I have several friends that want a site but know nothing about running one, so I do it for them. For a wp theme that looks good and has flexibility and support, I picked http://diythemes.com/thesis/ http://diythemes.com/thesis/