Hosting -- Again

Well, I didn't lie -- kinda. I'm no longer on the GoDaddy Windows hosting for the blog. Using Windows to host a Wordpress PHP blog really seems like it's swimming upstream. It can be made to work, but it's hard.I tried 1and1 and it was an epic disaster:

• I couldn't check out to buy the hosting with Google Chrome
• When adding the domains it got really confused and eventually gave me a 500 error
• I called support and I got a barely understandable CSR that didn't even know the system
• The DNS seems to only allow 4 MX records (not enough for Google)
• The DNS must be hosted at 1and1

Fail.I did a bunch of looking for hosting providers that offer Linux hosting with SSH support. Most of them seem really fly-by-night.Eventually I wound back at GoDaddy's Linux hosting.It's fast. I can't complain about this one....the devil you know...I did have a slight hiccup... on En's blog I had this up for about an hour:I called up tech support and they said it was DNS propagation... I think he was using an excuse that most folks would take and not question. I knew it was wrong since the DNS had already went past its TTL.Eventually I pried out of him that the change still needed to be pushed out to the Apache web server.Sure enough, given another 1/2 hour it was working again -- now on Linux!