Other web hosts
Paid hosting
Although there are free hosts out there that are suitable for personal home pages, paid hosting is generally better and more reliable. For one thing, if you're not paying for a service, it is awfully hard to complain when something goes wrong. That said, we list a couple of free hosting services toward the bottom of this page.
There's us, of course, and we're happy to help you set up your webcomic or whatever on our servers (Setup is free, unless you need us to do a lot of customization for you--But you can always cusotmize things yourself, too.), but we're not the only game in town. The biggest advantage we offer is complete control over every aspect of your domain from an easy-to-use web-based interface (CPanel--See this page for a demo.), including one-click installation of dozens of popular scripts (Drupal, Xoops, PHPBB, Wordpress, etcetera--See the features page for a more complete list. Our prices start around 6.50 a month, and you can pay month to month, although we can arrange discounts if you want to pay for more in advance.
Our guarantee: If you decide that you don't like us during your first thirty days, we'll give every cent back to you.
Liquidweb
We use Liquidweb's datacenters to house our servers. If you're looking for a dedicated server or a VPS, they're a reliable choice.
Here are a few other reputable paid hosts:
Hostgator.com
Hostgator has a good reputation in most quarters. They don't charge setup fees for shared accounts, and you can pay by the month. Generous bandwidth and storage space allotments for a reasonable price. You could do much worse than to start off with these guys.
Enter coupon code BCK1 to get started for as little as $9.90!
I've used DreamHost before with no problems, and only stopped because I had more web hosting accounts with more providers than I needed.
I found DreamHost to be a good, solid, reliable host with lots of disk space and more bandwidth than you will ever need (they increase it for you every month you host with them!) at a very low price. You can host unlimited domains on one account. They do have a fifty dollar setup fee. Since you can pay month to month, though, you can get started with them for about sixty bucks, or even cheaper if you use our discount coupon code above.
The downside: I'm not fond of their control panel, and they are only moderate as far as speed goes on heavy PHP/MySQL sites, but they should be fine for a starting webcomic using Walrus or similar, and are a good place to start if you're on a budget. Support is by email only.
Generous bandwidth and storage at a low, yet not ridiculous, price. You must pay for at least three months to start, and if you pay for a year or more up front they waive the setup fee. All in all, you should be able to get started with them for around sixty bucks. They use CPanel (my favorite control panel) and Fantastico, which makes controlling your domain, editing files, installing scripts, etcetera, a breeze. You can host up to six domains (your main account and five add-on domains).
One great thing about BlueHost, especially if you plan to use any heavy PHP applications (like Drupal) is that you can configure certain settings for your PHP. You don't have to, but you can, if you need to, boost the RAM allocated to PHP functions. They set things up so that any account that uses more then 20% of system resources get temporarily shut out. This isn't a bad thing--it means that no one can screw you out of the CPU cycles you should be able to count on.
From talking to BlueHost users, they've had only one major incident of downtime. It lasted 45 minutes, and the CEO of the company announced it in his blog and took full responsibility. That alone makes me like these guys. They also have 24/7 phone support, and their tech support people are geeks, which is cool.
MidPhase and AN hosting are owned by the same people. They use cPanel, regularly win awards from unbiased sources, have excellent third-party-verified uptime, and are listed with the Chicago BBB.
Comic-specific webhosts
Other paid webcomic hosting
Webcomics Nation
Although they may host full domains now, when I last checked you just got a subdomain at webcomicsnation.com--but they do automate a lot of stuff, so all you have to worry about is making comics. Last I checked, they did both free and paid accounts. Unmetered bandwidth , and they're cheap, too (this is one of the few exceptions to the "cheap is bad" rule). I get nothing for recommending them--I just recommend them because Joey Manly is possibly the hardest-working man in webcomics. Also, when you host a webcomic with WebComicsNation (you may recognize Manly's name from there), you get free advertising on the Modern Tales webcomic network of sites. The main downside here is the lack of ability to easily customize your site beyond a certain point.
Free webcomic hosting
Both of these listed below have more downtime and other glitches than a good paid host, but they are free. Comic Genesis seems a lot better than the old KeenSpace about uptime, but Drunk Duck seems to go down a lot. Still, if free is all you can afford, they're your best choice for webcomic hosting. They even provide the update script for you.
Comic Genesis, a service of Keenspot. Keenspot watches their Comic Genesis sites, and often promote the most heavily trafficked ones to the Keenspot site. IF your comic gets promoted from comicgenesis to Keenspot, you get paid for your work.