Geocities and angelfire at the old good days..
Then started jumping from here to there, cant remember.. then got a $20 shared hosting for half a year.

My first dedicated was fall 2002 i think, it rocked

Shared hosting for $30.00/month (or something very close). Then to a VPS, then to spending big money.

Every move has been well worth it.

I started with free hosting myself then got hosting from my friend who is a domain/hositing provider!

He has a very good hosting services and a good SEO!

He was the one who introduced me to the SEO world and isn't I am lovin It!

Take care!

Manish

My life: Free > Sponsored > Shared > Reseller > VPS
(that's the last 2 years)

I started wtih ffree hosting from a hosting company called hostingbranch.com I got webhosting in exchange for services from there I bought a dedicated server @ managed.com and moved over to tailormadeservers and now I reside with 6 dedicated servers from softlayer.com and 4 from fdcservers.net

Started with my own shared account somewhere, moved onto a reseller account, then to VPS and then onto a dedicated... probably could have skipped a few of those steps if I had been focused on creating and monetizing sites earlier

Started with personal fun websites on my ISP, Geocities, Xoom etc (had loads of hosting accounts as they only gave you something like 5 or 10 meg or something so needed to spread things around a bit...).

Now I use a simple paid-for shared account for about ... £5 a year (yes five!). Seems to me like a lot of services are brutally over priced; I've seen similar services as what I am getting advertised for anything up to $20-30 a month!

a dedicated server takes a lot of time to maintain. Although virtual hosting can be pretty bad.