As an old-time unix hacker, I know my way around the inside of a web server pretty well, but right now I'm in "I want a tool not a hobby" mode and need to find a web hosting service for a club I belong to. There seem to be plenty of places out there offering amazing amounts disk/bandwidth/etc for amazingly low prices, and it's not clear how to determine which are fly-by-night and which are reliable.
So, the question is, if I go with a hosting service and later decide to switch to a different provider, how hard is it to pick up my drupal-based site and move it to another host? Is it as simple as finding another place that offers LAMP services, dumping the database, and restoring it onto the new server? And, of course, changing the DNS registration.
-- roy@panix.com