Well, after trying several different hosting companies, I think I’ve found the one I’m going to use: IX Web Hosting. Their Business Plus package offers just about every feature I need at an affordable price. (Would you believe 1000 Gigabytes of web space? I had only 10 GB on my previous host.)
One of the web hosts I tested, Startlogic, seemed to have all the features I needed at an even cheaper price. However, when it came to serving PHP-based pages like my blog, it seemed to take an average of 25 seconds for the page to start loading. On IX, it’s closer to 2 seconds, which I feel is acceptable.
I also upgraded WordPress to the latest version, which means some of my tweaks to the previous version no longer work. It seems to have emailed out a previous blog entry when I made a correction, which it is not supposed to do. It should only email a blog entry once.
My email is all going to Gmail for now. At some point I may test out the webmail at IX.
I’m also testing out Windows Live Writer, which is offline blogging software that then posts to my blog. We’ll see how that works.
P.S. I hope that I’ve now fixed the bug that makes it mail out when I change something. Here goes…