What do I need to get it going, and how much money will it cost me?

It depends entirely on what service you use and what features you're looking for.

I like PHPnet. They offer a domain, cPanel, databases, and the like in a single package at a reasonable price!

Looking for something to host webcomics, movies, flash, and maybe a minimal forum on. The homepage for a company.

Bump: Ah yes, ok then, got it all figured out.
 
Thank you Tremclad.

I learned a lot in this thread:
http://www.clockcrew.cc/talk/showthread.php?t=72174

Quote from: TremcladClock;1288030I like PHPnet. They offer a domain, cPanel, databases, and the like in a single package at a reasonable price!

I went with PHPnet (which is really Byethost.com) and I love it. I use the $3 per month kind.

I have eurohost. It costs 1 euro per month per gigabyte of storage, the four gig package comes with unlimited bandwidth, 9.95 euros per year for a domain name (.com address), can execute all scripts.