Many companies would like to sell you a bundled plan of web hosting (that is, actually hosting your web site) and domain name hosting. Someone once said it was a good idea to have those two services with separate companies. This doesn’t seem to be universally agreed-upon, but I’ve followed it anyway.

Up until tonight, my domain host was GoDaddy. I was drawn in by their low prices, but over the years I’ve gotten more and more fed up with their hard-sell approach and with their sleazy marketing (including lurid Super Bowl ads with uncensored versions on the web). I think it was my brother who once told me he would never use GoDaddy because he has a daughter; whoever said it, it rings true.

Anyway, a few months ago I was listening to one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts sponsored by Hover. Leo touted their low-key approach, and their prices are reasonable, so I switched tonight.

Once I had gotten into the process, I realized that changes like this can sometimes disrupt a site for a day or two, as the new information propagates to various servers around the Internet. And of course, I use my domain name for my e-mail addresses.

I even put up a Facebook message apologizing for any outage and encouraging people to use my backup e-mail address.

But everything seems to have gone smoothly, and shortly after I apologized for being down I seemed be up and running.

Kudos to Hover, and also to my web site host, TotalChoice Hosting, for quickly responding to a question I had about the change. (It turns out I didn’t need the answer to the question, however, because Hover took care of it automatically.)