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I think that's an honest and fair comment. My websites are important to me - I need to know I can trust a host to look after them.

I'd spend the money on a design and a marketer - you need to get the message right.

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You could start by spending $50-$100 on a nice WordPress theme to slap on the front end. Spend money on a designer when you've got some initial paying customers.

True dat, theres already like a million hosting themes online... http://themeforest.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=hosting

Probably the best use of money on an extreme budget, is finding a good one and then modifying it.

It wouldn't even take that - you can go a long way in a few days making a child theme of twentytwelve and tweaking the stylesheets. Nearly everything else is plugins.

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