Main question is: what is she willing to pay? Or is she only looking for free webspace with a cgi-bin folder? In that case, good luck, cause there are none. None stable enough or not having policies allowing message boards, if that's what your friend is pointing at.
For paid webspace: try
PHPWebhosting, which is only 10 dollars a month
and very stable, you can't get much better ones than that one. [img]smile.gif[/img]