Thread:Project:Support desk/Searching for a good host/reply

In which part of the world are you living? That is an important point for the performance you get when you connect to your server. ;-)

Then when you check some hosts, you should make sure that they offer
 * enough disk space to install MediaWiki. I would guess 100MB would be OK for the beginning; if you want to upload many images and such you will need more
 * PHP 5.3 or newer
 * MySQL 5.1 or newer
 * Shell access (I think that is what you are mainly talking about right now)

You definately get that for 5 €/$ per month - I don't know if you get all that for free (especially shell access might be hard).