Heligirl is hosted by Dreamhost and I highly recommend Dreamhost for your own web hosting needs.

Here are a few reasons:

Even the $7.95 a month plan is huge. You get 2.4 gigs of storage, 120 gigs of throughput, unlimited databases, 600 inboxes, 3 domains, a streaming server, a jabber server, and full shell access.

If you want to set up a blog, all it takes is one click in the Dreamhost control panel and Word Press (a great open source blogging engine) will automatically set itself up for you. You can make whatever customizations you'd like afterwards, but you are literally five seconds away from having a fully functional blog.

IMAP e-mail. So much nicer than POP3 email! A full mail application, IMAP-based mail allows Apple users to use multiple copies of Apple Mail on multiple machines. Dreamhost's IMAP mail service also has a web front-end for when you're using a public computer.

Dreamhost's web-based control panel is the best in the industry to my knowledge. You're in control of so much that sometimes you feel like you're going to click the wrong button and restart an entire server farm. Having a good control panel is crucial in cutting out phone support time and FAQ-reading time. But should you need help, Dreamhost's FAQ section is also top-notch.

Dreamhost engages in random acts of kindness. They have increased the disk space, throughput, and all sorts of other things on my account twice in less than a year. The latest time occurred during their New Years sale, but instead of just giving new users triple space and triple bandwidth, they tripled existing users' allocations as well.
Every person you refer to Dreamhost becomes an affiliate of yours and you get 10% of their hosting fees for life. You also get 5% of the hosting fees of whomever they refer. It's like a pyramid scheme without the "scheme" part. If someone asked me who my hosting company was, I'd refer them unconditionally to Dreamhost even if this program didn't exist, so it's just a bonus that it does. It really only takes a few referrals and your hosting is either free or better than free.

Anyway, so that's about it. Should you decide to go with Dreamhost, just click here and tell them heligirl.com sent you.

Thanks to Mike Davidson for his inspiration with this text and referring me to Dreamhost!