Yesterday I was with Quadra, today I’m with HostGator. My old host was great, but it cost a lot of money, and with this new one I save about $100 p/a, which is a big deal. On the downside it’s in the US, so my FTP speeds aren’t quite as snappy. Also, it introduced me to the dark side of CMS software, like having to back up all of my tables and transfer it to a new database, not to mention messing around endlessly with permissions and config files, which was kind of a drag…

But on the bright side, it gave me an excuse to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. WordPress isn’t one of those programs that stays the same from version to version aside from a few irrelevant details, it actually packs a lot of changes into its upgrades, and it’s great having the latest version.