What do I need for this website?

I'm building a simple website for a college church group. It's only 6 pages. They're all in .apsx format with some ajax stuff on a couple of the pages. Right I'm trying to determine two things. Firstly- I need to do some database connections. I can do it with an access database and .. or I can use an SQL server thing. The question is what kind of hosting capabilities do I need to achieve this? (Currently I'm doing web programming with a state agency and they have a dedicated server machine with IIS enabled, so I haven't had much experience with outside hosting)