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Hosting and design are two separate things. There are a bunch of landing page designers here on Wickedfire. Usually you can get a decent page designed for $25 - 150 depending on what you need done: just the images, images and html, etc.

As for hosting, get the best that you can afford AND that your sites will pay for. If you are pushing big time traffic, you'll need a big time server (dedicated). On the other hand, if you're just getting started, you can get away with a shared server for awhile and move up when your budget allows. If you can swing $20 - 50 per month, then get a VPS. You'll have more room and more control over your server than you will on shared, and not have the big cost of dedictated. Some of the VPS' I've used and like: LiquidWeb, Servint, Knownhost. Currently I have a dedicated for PPC campaigns and VPS for personal projects. The VPS only costs $34 a month.
 
FUCK Hostgator! Fucking hate those clowns almost as much as GoDaddy. If you must go with shared hosting go with Lunarpages.

Fucking Hostgator mutha-fuckas...mumble mumble grumble fuck.
 
What would you consider high enough traffic to step up from shared hosting? I've been using Zensix but I'm still pretty low volume.
 
If your page is a simple HTML page, then normally even shared hosting can handle some decent traffic. I've talked to guys running 20,000 clicks a day to a simple HTML landing page on shared hosting. Not very common, but it can be done. Keep an eye on the server load, your bandwidth, and if you're experiencing a lot of 500 errors or other server errors.

The reason why I don't like shared hosting is lack of control. Also, there are less people sharing a server on VPS and with Dedicated you're the only one on the box. But, I'm not knocking shared by any means. I used it for years and still do through my dad's account (I think I have one site on his account) since he doesn't use it for anything. I think Subigo owns Zensix, if you have any questions with that hosting PM him, from what I've seen he's very responsive to questions.
 
I have a VPS through liquidweb and have been happy with it so far. I also have a few old accounts through Godaddy that I actually liked and didn't have any problems with until I started getting some larger traffic daily.
 
I'm currently using Gocrappy for all of my projects. My suggestion, stay far away from that crap. Their services are pretty fucking slow at times. Sometimes I have a pretty hard time with their smtp.

There is one thing I do like about Godaddy that I might as well add to this thread. I'm able to host all of my domains from one hosting account. I'm sure you can do this with many other services though. I would just check into it.
 
I'm currently using Gocrappy for all of my projects. My suggestion, stay far away from that crap. Their services are pretty fucking slow at times. Sometimes I have a pretty hard time with their smtp.

There is one thing I do like about Godaddy that I might as well add to this thread. I'm able to host all of my domains from one hosting account. I'm sure you can do this with many other services though. I would just check into it.

Most hosts, even shared will allow you to host multiple sites.