Hi Rory,
I use a mac and have a .mac subscription. As soon as my new Mac gets here I can use that for our basic site
www.twoguysoutdoors.com , we already bought our website name from go daddy. A friend of mine works at a company called rackspace and will be doing a lot for us once we get more comfortable with what we are doing. I am not familiar with other (microsoft) products, but lungbusters deal is a heck of a starting place. That is probably the best advice so far.
Jake