I have begun the process of moving to WinHost with my blog here at wp.theoblogical.org.   The only thing I don’t like is that they don’t do subdomain pointing to subdirectories.  It has to be done through things like URL Rewrite,.  which doesn’t make it possible to mask the directory (here ,  in the case of my blog,  it’s now in the URL.  I had to change some URLs in the WordPress database to make it work.  I am having to look into URL rewrite rules or other means to see if I can keep the wordpress (or any other application,  like drupal)  out of the URL. 

Their support seems pretty responsive,  and is a breath of fresh air compared to the dismal support webhost4life now exhibits.  Webhost4life was great since the fall of 2002 when I first started hosting my stuff there.  Since around March,  site uptime is horrible,  slow,  and when I needed to make changes,  FTP was a nightmare.

If anybody knows how I can do something like what subdomain pointing to subdirs,  let me know.  In  webhost4life,  all I had to do,  after creating the subdomain,  was to point it at a location,  and so wp.theoblogical.org  was running under my account at the directory /wp222.  All the URLs were like http://wp.theoblogical.org/?p=6224  but now it has to be http://wp.theoblogical.org/wp222/?p=6224.   I had to do some mySQL to change a bunch of paths in WordPress to fix that.

But tests I ran for speed in a side by side comparison showed WinHost to be twice as fast in loading links to my blog.