There are lots of free sites, I'm just getting tired of re-uploading everything every six to ten months.
As far as I can tell Hyperphp was bought by the same folks who bought the last site I had.
Maybe it's me they're following around?
My wife has wanted her own site for a while so she can maintain a blog and gallery (to showcase her web design work). The timing is because we are about to buy a domain name as a birthday gift, we just don't the name yet, as our niece/nephew is still a week or so away.
It's a fair amount cheaper to buy two (or more) at once, so we thought, why not?