I finally got so sick of how slowly my pages were loading when hosted on Godaddy I made the switch to a new hosting company.  I went with Bluehost because 1) it was listed on the wordpress.org suggested web hosts, and 2) it nudged out the others on the list with the live chat tech support.

A lot of the hosting sites were relatively close in stats like storage, bandwidth.  All of them were way over what I’d ever imagining ever using (though if my blog got that much traffic it’d be nice).  In the end, the ability to jump into a chat at any time to fix problems really trumped the little differences in hosting statistics.  I ended up firing up 3 chats to solve some minor issues I had while setting up my site.  Had this been with a hosting company that only had phone or e-mail I would’ve gone nuts, but instantly solving problems with really helpful reps was a pleasure.  Blue Host wins with the great user experience.

Also nice is the automatic WordPress install and easy to use panel that they let you sample before the site.  Pricing is reasonable.  They do make you sign up for at least 3 months, and at least 12 months to avoid the $30 setup fee.  However, they have a 30 day cancellation guarantee so to me it’s fine to have the longer contracts.  I went for the 12 month.