I just finished the first stage in my quest to transfer this site to a new host with pretty good success.  I’ve decided to go with InMotion Hosting as I already have access to an available domain slot for transfer and they fit my needs well at the price point I’m looking at.

I figure at this point, I’ll just have to copy everything, change a few of the paths in my config files and then pick a date to start the domain transfer.  I expect to be down for at least a day or two during that time, but I believe it will be well worth it. So far, the test site (which partially mirrors this one), is very fast and at only 16% resource usage (compared to 42% here).

I will be sure to make periodic updates as I move forward.