If you’re seeing this, it means that my recent change of web hosts has been successful. Obviously, not quite everything is done yet – this blog usually carries the same layout as my personal site, but since the WordPress template associated with that is currently broken, you may see some odd layout results from time to time as I try to fix the problem.

For those wondering, I’ve switched from pair Networks to Dreamhost, which gives me as much functionality as pair but far more flexibility in terms of cost and the number of domains I can host on my account. That’s not to say I’m ragging on pair Networks; I absolutely recommend them to anyone looking for a competent and stable web host that puts their customers first. Case in point – as I was moving files over to Dreamhost, I found that I couldn’t access my domains via web or SSH but could ping and traceroute to pair’s server. A ticket request into pair’s Urgent Support system and 30 minutes of lobbing messages back and forth traced the problem to an xmlrpc file (WordPress, specifically) that got an abnormal number of hits. Since this can sometimes be a server attack, pair’s network blacklisted me. Support was nice enough to whitelist my IP block to fix the problem.

If that doesn’t speak volumes (and that their Urgent Support people were on the job within five minutes of my e-mail), I don’t know what does!