If you are new into blogging and or just want to start blogging or any other website that could have thousands of visitors in future then choosing for the right WebHost is of utmost priority. Since all websites of blogs depend on the hosting, A bad host can cause several problem like site down times resulting loss of visitors and revenue if you have monetized it.
From My personal experience i would recommend following Webhosts, they are well reputed and host several thousands websites and blogs.
1. DreamHost
2. Media Temple
3. SiteGround
I have used all of these web hosts and based on my personal experience I would recommend them to any one who just want to get into blogging, DreamHost and SiteGround are relatively cheaper web hosts and Media Temple is bit expensive though. There are also several other Good Web hosts and you can find some on Web Hosting Rating site. They offer the ratings of many of the web hosts in the industry.

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you have introduced a site simplescript.com that offers free web hosting. Do you recommend one should have such web hosting services?
simplescript does not offer free hosting it offer free installation of applications like wordpress