It begins
Just switched to a better web hosting company: http://www.bluehost.com/. I got the entire hubbard-software.com site, including the domain name, switched over in under an hour. That hour started when I read Paul Hubbard’s email recommending WordPress, and finished when I could browse to my site at it’s new location. (Admittedly, it would have been longer, had I not retained control of the domain name myself.) Another hour after that, DNS had settled in enough for the site to respond pretty much instantly. Impressive, especially remembering the ugly administrative 2-to-4-week nightmare that used to be standard when switching service providers, back in the 90’s.
BlueHost sure is easy to deal with. I did have to send an email in order to enable ssh access, but they took care of that in a few hours. I actually like them enough to post one of their advertisements here, as it’s actually rather nice-looking, and they are doing a good job: