gambrinous with griffonage

Well, the digital me has at least. If you can see this, then my move from my old web host to the new web host went well.

Back in October, I discovered my current web host was going out of business. I asked for recommendations, which many of you offered. Based on J.P.'s recommendation, I ended up choosing MacHighway. While I'm not a Mac guy in any way, I do like the fact that the servers are wind powered.

I first moved a couple of my "static" business websites over to them to see how that went. After not seeing any real issues, I decided I'd take the big leap and move this site over to them as well.

Which was a little more challenging.

MacHighway has excellent documentation on moving from one host to another, and all the things you need to do to make it work. I ended up having issues with both methods they document for moving WordPress sites, so I ended up doing it my own way. Which worked.

As I write this post, I see a few minor things I need to figure out what's going on with. But for the most part everything looks like it survived the move.

My web host bitServe, who I've always loved, recommended countless times, and have never had any problems with at all, posted this on their front page:

bitServe has ceased operations. Paid subscribers will be provided hosting service through December 31, 2011 in lieu of a refund.

I don't know when they posted this, but I was taken by surprise, especially considering I don't recall receiving any email about that from them.

Which means my hunt begins for a new web host which to move all the domains I own over to, including my blog. /joy

It's been a long time since I had to go hunting for a web host.

My basic requirements are PHP 5 support, Perl support, MySQL database support, FTP and telnet access, and some sort of admin control panel.

Do any of my readers have any recommendations? Who do you use, or who do you know that I should avoid?