GoDaddy, Lunarpages... doesn't really matter WHO you're dealing with, odds are, they've got a list of programs available to you that would make any programmer envious. PhPBB, simplemachines forum, Xango, Moodle... you name it, and it's out there at any web developer's disposal... at least, with the main hosts out there.
So how can you make it work for you? Research, and lots of it. A week spent learning what Joomla can do for you will save you YEARS in programming. A day's research on forum products (the most user-friendly, in my opinion) will put together a site that one person could never do on their own.
These tools are available to you, and I recommend using them, as I have, because along with it comes teams of developers who will help you with any problem you encounter. Communities come together on these boards to solve your problems and get your site back up and running. It's probably not as dependable as some of the pay sites' customer service, but if you give them a chance, you'll soon see what these open source products have to offer, and I'm sure you'll be impressed.
On a similar note, I was impressed with the one-click installation options on both of my webhosts, GoDaddy and Lunarpages. Each of them have a tool (for GoDaddy, it's GoDaddy Hosting Connection, for Lunarpages, Fantastico) that make adding software easier than signing up for the account.
It goes something like this: Oh, you wanted simplemachines forum? Ok. What do you want your password to be? Come back in a few minutes to the directory you wanted it to be under, and you can start labeling everything....
and bam. I've got my own forum up and running (yes, lol, I put up TWO different forums, one of which is a glorious wasteland... come to think of it, the second isn't doing so fabulous, either).
Even better, once your website is up and running, you can have access to their scripts as well, for mail forms PERL scripts, and more.
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