I’ll assume you have:

Written your blog manifesto
Chosen and registered a name for your blog

Now you are ready to find a host.
Assuming you have a.com domain as the name of your blog, you have a multitude of choices. I use GoDaddy.com, but there are many others.
What to look for in a host:
Good prices. As a [...]

It takes a long time to set up a blog: even before the first real post appears on your blog, you will have invested (hopefully) hours of research and toil into making it the best blog that it can be. The thing is, it is just as easy to spend a lot of time [...]