Switching?

In the spirit of full disclosure, I am probably going to switch to a different web host sometime soon. Currently, I use GoDaddy to host this site, and the harpojaeger.com domain is also registered with them. renaissanceboy.org, my first domain, which now redirects here, is registered with DirectNic, the company I was using at the time.

The reasons I want to switch are complicated. For a while, I’ve been impressed by GoDaddy’s low prices but dismayed by their site’s operation in a technical sense; it is confusing and slow. In addition, I have never been fully supportive of their marketing techniques, which are frequently subtly, sometimes blatantly, sexist, base, and calculative. I have never really devoted much thought to it, but my father mentioned to me that there was a movement afoot to ditch GoDaddy because of these tactics, and he directed me to this article. It sums up the issues at play very well.

I was already aware of DreamHost, having worked for a client who used it, and the other hosting service the article linked to, LunarPages, looks excellent as well. I am going to spend some time in the near future researching different services, and will probably make the switch soon. I think I will also consolidate all of my domain names to the same registrar, ideally the same company that’s doing the hosting. This should make stuff a lot easier.