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Okay, so $50/yr is not a large figure. What is that, about 1hr of wages?
I use my own Amazon server, it costs me about $16/mo for my own server.
In fact, you can try their FREE server, if you want Linux.

And that gets into the second part. What are you looking for? Hosting simple html? Hosting PHP or .Net?

These are all radically different. GoDaddy has hosting.
Depends on what you need/want.

I have used about 4 hosting companies (outside of amazon). Some charged low fees, and throttled my site as a VM (once we exceeded some limits). But it was CHEAP. We watched clients forced through a merger (or two) of these companies, and get told they are not going to be supported in 2-3 months after the merger (old, custom configurations).

How much support?
How much access?
How much are you relying on them to keep all of the security stuff patched?
Are you going to need MSSQL? (One of the sites, I can access the NAMES of every database they host. Based on most users, I could probably guess what the passwords are, and access other peoples data).

You should go check out the prices of AdWords from google... You $50 would not last you a week, and may not last more than a few clicks! So, I am not sure how you intend to drive users to your site.

To me, I ran into the same problem when looking for hosting companies, but the problem is really hard. Hosting of Linux or windows? Self service or full service? Really secure or Really Cheap?
And the field is constantly changing as well. HostGator was decent a while back. But their cheapest level is like $5/month (which is NOTHING in my opinion), and that already exceeds your limits.

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