Really intro level hosting question

[dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

Ok, I'm through hearing from friends "Hey I'm building a web site for this 
guy I know and I don't know anything about how do to it except to whip 
some stuff up in FrontPage for him."  The fact that these people are 
getting paid gives me a migraine.

The thing that's stopped me from doing this for anybody in the past is the 
issue of finding a hosting provider.  I prefer to work in a 
Linux/Tomcat/Java environment.  Does anybody have one they like that 
particularly caters to small business (i.e. has really low startup cost)?

I know of two small business owners who might be willing to be guinea pigs 
to help me work the kinks out.  I'd do their sites for free, but they 
would still have to pick up the hosting costs.

 Duane