Hi,

>Got a friend of mine who is going to start a small business. Would like recommendations for a place to host it. Nice if they have website templates and built-in file transfers. No need for eCommerce and all that for now.

I went for this a couple of weeks ago: http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.planBusinessPlus
I only needed it for experimenting/testing but I couldn't find anything to touch it for my needs:

8 fixed IP addresses !
100 MS SQL Databases (Unlimited MySQL)
Unlmiited transfer volumes and storage.
ASP.NET 2 support
And a couple of free domain registrations thrown in.

There's also the usual web-site builder and ecommerce stuff but I've not really looked at that. Don't know what the bandwidth is either but I'm not expecting to use it for any heavy traffic. Oh, and it's limited to only 5000 email addresses :-{

Best,
Viv