Well, its been ages since I've really touched my hosting (thanks Mark at TQHosting) or my blogging with MovableType 3.3. But last week, my 3.3 installation finally broke with all kinds of strange Perl errors, so it is either upgrade to MovableType 4.0 and do a clean install or figure out what's the latest. So, I just swapped to Wordpress and am giving Bluehost a try.
Instead of 500MB for $10/month which was an amazing deal back three years ago, Bluehost gives an amazing 1.5TB (that's right terabtyes!) or storage and they install Wordpress automatically. Also the cost is basically $95/year ($7/year) and they provide free registration (so you save $7/year for registration too). Quite a deal. It uses the same cpanel setup.
Getting over to richtong.com was a handy domain to mirror tongfamily before I do a full cut over. Upperhost.com seems to liek Bluehost although you can never tell with web site spamming whether these reviews are real or not.
Moving over was straightforward, with the biggest problem my using Textile 2 for text entry, but fortunately, there is a plugin that deals with that and putting things into plugins is super easy with wordpress. You basically put it into the /wp-admin/plugin directory and it detects it automatically. Same with themes, you just fine them and stuff them into the /wp-admin/themes directory.
The biggest problem I have faced is resetting my Scribefire since you have to look in ~/Library/Application/Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default and look for performancing.* files and delete them.
One thing that I would highly, highly recommend is setting up wordpress using svn (or fantastico, which frequently comes with cpanel).
The updates are reasonably frequent (30-60 days), and wordpress does a good job convincing you that you need them.
It is so much easier to ssh in and type 'svn update' than it is to deal with ftping files, etc.