Bandwidth Usage

May not be a bad idea if you need to save a bit of cash. At my site's peak, back in December, I used 5 gig of bandwidth, with 33K pageviews. I do offer downloadable MP3s and PDFs through my site, so that increases my bandwidth usage a little bit, and probably half a gig of that comes from some of the other sites I run on the same account. Lately, with drastically lower traffic numbers, I'm averaging about 1-2 gigs per month.

Cool, even though your content is different than mine will be (shorter but many many many), you've got the multi-media going on, so it's nice to throw that into the average.

Angryhost offers an even cheaper plan, $1/month, but they don't offer SQL databases with that, and in my understanding I'll need one to run Drupal.

Thanks!

EDIT: Huh, I just found an even cheaper hosting service which seems to be a better deal. I'll have to do more research on their company.

Yes, Drupal does require an SQL database and PHP.

I probably don't need to say this, but it's worth mentioning that you want to look at more than price when deciding on hosting -- uptime (and in my experience, the advertised "99.9% uptime" that every host says they have and the real uptime you'll experience are very different), customer service, content policies, etc. all float into the mix.

Yeah, that super-cheap one has a couple of things that make me leery. Web Fiction Guide uses Angry Hosting, which is kind of like a referral, but I don't know how I'd go about finding sites that use 1-Dollar-Hosting.

A big thing to remember is that its not just bandwidth, but processing power. Databases and forums and blogs take a lot of processing power for the bandwidth, and cheap hosts will sometimes cut you off based on that.