Well, the move is done.

I've moved to DreamHost, because I wanted a cheap host who had SSH access and other goodies to play with (RoR and Subversion particularly). With a $99 discount, it's cheap enough that I can just discard it after a year if it's not good enough.

My first observation is that it's noticeably slower than the old host. Especially MySQL as the database is on a different machine. It might be worth looking into installing a local copy if possible.

Finally, DreamHost have disabled PHPs allow_url_fopen ini setting, which breaks my favatars code. I've fixed my own copy to and will upload a new version as soon as I've more fully tested it.

Edit:
There also seems to be a problem with escaping characters to go into the database. Something else to fix…