I'm still reading through many forums and many, many threads but I wanted to know if anyone uses www.simplehost.com for their domain/hosting service? If so please help me get started. I've signed up and registered a domain through them and I want to get my site up and running as soon as possible. Also even if you don't use them and are familiar with anything that will help me please do so.

i would go with www.godaddy.com

http://www.emaxhosting.com <-- Very reliable host.
http://www.namecheap.com <-- Very cheap domains.

Well for hosting i would definitly recommand

http://www.9xhosting.com/