Useful and interesting section, and it does mention that you should take care and trust your host. I'd be weary about freebies, if you are like me who actually has to make a living in this business. They are likely to have ads, or give you one of their sub domain addresses, or will only allow you to give courses free of charge, or even worse, steal your students and use your courses for themselves.
What I saw was someone starting a thread with a chart showing various specifications oof webhosts, for example bandwidth, price, PHP, myql, etc. It was asking fr others to support and give specification of others. Obviously such a post would need a lot of support coming from other forum members.
If there is anybody out there who has used a web host for about a year, has about 50+ students, and is satisfied with their service, or who has had a bad experience, please let us know.