I went for cheap and cheerful ISP no space just a 512 link and an e-mail address maybe i can upgrade but for now just want to get my hands dirty if you know what i mean.
That’s the exact same thing I do (except my ISP isn’t earthlink), and it works extremely well. Although I wish it had PHP/MySQL, it works perfectly fine for just hosting images and stuff.
I understand how hard it is to find a good webhost, because there are so few, if none, that are really good and will be around for more than a year.