Paperwork, gifts and bandwidth

Following up the job offer which I got through YinI, yesterday I received a whole pile of information which they send out once you've got a placement, informing me of a Business Awareness course I've been booked on (amongst others), as well as a note saying that I should have arranged a start-of-work date with my employers by now. I'm getting a bit worried, since I haven't actually received official confirmation from the company yet - it was a verbal acceptance over the phone to someone at YinI. Isn't ten days a bit long to still be waiting for confimation and job details?

And Smoke And Mirrors was duly delivered yesterday, so thanks Clair! I'm resisting the urge to start reading it straight away... trying not to be in the position of reading four books at once!

If there's anyone besides Clair who looks at people's wishlists, I really really want the new iPod, with an alarm clock, and Solitaire, and up to five times the hard disk capacity of my MP3 player...

And I'm rapidly running out of bandwidth - I've exceeded my limit with Portland two months in a row now, and I've received an (automated) threatening email informing me that I must purchase more bandwidth or my site may be removed from the system.

I checked it out though, and apparently they threaten you a few times before asking you to pay a large fine (more than the cost of buying extra bandwidth), and if you refuse to comply then they'll delete your site.

<fx: crosses fingers>

So, does anyone know of any cheap and fairly reliable hosts? Minimum of disk space needed - I don't think I'm quite up to 1MB yet - but I'd want at least 500MB bandwidth per month, to be on the safe side. Suggestions, please, on a postcard... or the comments box is fine, or my email...