Making a Localhost/Web Hosted Retro

Hey forum,

I'm looking to develop a theme for a CMS (most probably RevCMS) I may give it a little re-write and organisation too.

I've made a couple of retros, for development purposes only, on VPS's several times but now, I really can't be doing with breaking the bank every month and I'm out of work until August to develop for the community so I figured localhost or web hosted would be a good second idea.

I attempted to do it localhost but I keep getting the "#1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server" error and I spent two hours trying to fix it and nothing worked so web host was an even better second best. I was just wondering if anyone knew any hosts that were cheap, hold what I need and if someone could give me a quick step-by-step guide. I know there's lots of tutorials but I'm looking for something a little more basic to go along side it e.g.
1) Go to C-panel, click x, do y.
2) Update a and b.
3) etc etc

As an addon, I could always do the good old windows VPS so if anyone's got any cheap suggestions, throw them at me!

Cheers,
Menna

Oh and I welcome myself back to the habbo community, sup guys! :thumbup1: