Ditto to most of what Mark Clark said. I'll add my own ISP http://www.38h.com as a Windows operator who I'm happy reccommending.

On the Windows vs Unix/Linux (I'll call them *nix) like issues, the *nix/apache solution is well regarded as being stable but as far as I understand it Windows 2003 is pretty good too. In any case, I don't see that choice in itself as being the most important issue. Good support, that servers are monitored and set up well IMO are more important. It's possible to get a lousy *nix ISP or a good Windows one, etc. Take notice of a company's reputation - I'm pretty sure the one Mark suggested will be very good.

Where I feel your choice of platform would be more important is if you ever decided to develop beyond HTML. You could find that the O/S on your development machine (when you get one) influences your decision or your choice of development language does, eg. if you wanted to use asp.net, that would lead you to Windows, etc. Personally I wish I'd have written all my stuff in php.

You may never need to be concerned about these things but on the other hand may even at this stage consider what (if any) scripting and ISP offers or whether a database is provided. It's surprisng how things can grow and you could soon find how much more flexible you can be without being confined to just HTML. Our own efforts with abc are in a database which now has over 500 songs. FWIW, you can find that one here. Something like that of course takes more time to create but eliminates the need to create a html page for each song - songs are added in much the same way as a post is made here.

Hope that helps a little.

Jon