Starting up a blog - need some guidance

[DeeSeven]

Hello

I've been dabbling in web hosting. graphics, etc for quite a while but I'm use to bigger sites (music acts, large companies etc). I'm looking to start a smallish blog with my fiancee. While I think it won't be anything huge where we would take up 20-30 GB of traffic I want to make sure I don't sell ourselves short or pay for a huge package only to find out we aren't using 97% of it.

Basically in a nut shell the blog will be about cooking and saving money. I'm 99% percent sold on wordpress theme unless some act of god proves to me that it isn't good to use

So I'm looking for a good host that just has crazy good uptime and can handle something simple as a blog. I plan on buying a domain through namecheap.com. I noticed they have web hosting but I'm a little leery as they offer those famous words of "unlimited" which is never true. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

[JMP]

Namecheap.com is ok, but I would recommend Stablehost (its what we use for some of our sites).
As far as what package to use, its not so much the bandwith that you would really need to worry about. Since you will be using wordpress, I would take a look at what plugins you want/use to determine how much memory you will need for your server to help determine what package best fits you.

-JMP

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