Aussie Web Hosting 

 Aussie Hosts 

There are two good reasons for using an Australian hosting service:

1) If you are a business you get the GST back
2) Your site should be quicker for Aussies to access

Try Hosting Bay - current home of my site OzFlower.com - AU$3.97 a month gets you 10MB space and 1GB of traffic. First month free

or SmartyHost - email hosting from $20 per year, or full-featured hosting from $80 year. They regularly get recommended by Aussie computer magazines.

• FlexiHostings - cheapest package is good value - 1GB transfer & 35MB disk space (that's enough to run this site) for only $42 per year
• ilisys - have the important features other hosts forget about - nice plans from $4.95, and clustered servers (means extra reliability!)
• AusWeb - looks like the best local service for reseller plans - for when you have many sites to host, or if you wish to start your own hosting business
• Hostess - dirt cheap domain names, and good value hosting - $5 a month for huge amount of storage & unlimited data transfer.

 Overseas Hosts 

I personally find that if you use a good overseas service it is much cheaper and the service is better than their Aussie counterparts. Here are some that I use myself, and can recommend:

EHostPros
This is where I host many of my other sites, like Fiind.com. The reason I use them is that they let you host unlimited domains, and is virtually the only service I have found that will do this cheaply, without catches

• 100 MB storage space on the $2.99 plan
• Unlimited Domains (as masked sub-directories)
• No set-up fee
• osCommerce Shopping Cart, and other pre-installed scripts
• 20 POP3 Mailboxes
• Web-based E-Mail
• PHP, Perl, CGI, SSI
• 5Gb / Month Data Transfer

PHP Webhosting - Current home of SearchEngineZ.com (the international version of this site). $9.95 a month. The first host I have used that doesn't mind high traffic (currently we are 8 Gig per month) - unlimited storage, data transfer & perfect for PHP and MySQL

DSD Hosting - $5.95 per month. I use them for GoogleFan.com. Very good value if you need less than 3GB of traffic per month,30MB storage. Other plans available.

DreamHost - I'm not using them yet, but they are next on my list. All their customers rave about them, and the added extras are legendary, whilst prices are great value at only $7.95/mo.

I've just started using 3ix.org and will update this listing in due course. Prices start at a remarkably low $AU1.39/mo.

 Watch Out for Rip-Offs! 

Always, always, always read the small print. Common tricks are to offer unlimited traffic, but to exclude sites with images in the conditions. Or to charge ridiculous fees for exceeding traffic limits. Host1 offer 10Gb of traffic for $10.95/mo, but each excess GB is charged at $55 (they call it 5.5c per MB, so it sounds insignificant...)

If you find any other examples, let me know, I'll list them here