$2/Month for High Quality 99.9% Uptime 3GB space/30GB Bandwidth Web Hosting at HawkHost

Quick intro:

Hawkhost is a highly reputable web host, see sites such as http://webhostingtalk.com for confirmation, it is up there with other high rep shared hosting providers such as Steadfast and MediaLayer. Servers are based in US (data centres are geographically dispersed so almost negligible impact for most Australian users though)

Use coupon code "ozbarg" to get 47% off first payment.

Plan summary for recommended plan:

• 3 GB disk space
• 30 GB bandwidth per month (this is plenty, ignore hosts that over sell hundreds of GBs)
• Apache
• PHP 5 (what common scripts such as phpBB, osCommerce etc. use)
• Zend Optimiser for PHP and Ioncube Loader if needed
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby on Rails
• SSH access
• Mysql with unlimited databases
• PostgreSQL with no database limit
• Subversion and Trac (rare among web hosts)

Hosting features:

• 99.9% uptime with SLA (discount if service performs below 99.9%, complete refund if uptime is under 99%)
• No petty restrictions such as disallowing remote connections
• CPanel control panel (the gold standard for shared hosting)
• No limits on addon domains, FTP accounts, email accounts, subdomains etc.
• Plenty of included stats analysis tools, included scripts such as osCommerce and more