[RobGR]

All the cheap hosting places suck. Dealing with the customer and the non-responsive $5 / mo hosting place takes more time and effort than just hosting it yourself.

If they are truly low traffic, just host them yourself on a business class connection. You can pack a lot of low traffic websites on one machine. Graphics will load slowly unless you pay for more bandwidth, and you have to do your own backups, of course. Have your customers buy the domain themselves, but then have them log into godaddy or whoever they used and do the setup yourself.

Should the business relationship end, they control the domain and can just point it somewhere else, and you can mail their backup to them on a CD, and thus not be accused of holding anything hostage.