Goodbye Godaddy

For the last three years I have been using Godaddy to host my personal website.  I have also been using their blog content management system.

Why I'm leaving the GoDaddy Quickblog:  

- Multiple passwords to remember.
- No flexibility to customize the headers.
- Limited templates that force usage.
- If users sigh up to be on a mailing list I cannot see who they are.
- Zero support
- Random changes to formats have occurred when there is a turnover.

Reasons why I'm switching to Squarespace.

- It's what I'm using at Kapitall.com to write news, market opinions and the company blog.
- Squarespace has much better customization
- Squarespace has customer support and it's quick
- Squarespace offices and my office at Kapitall are in the same building in Soho.
- After using it for Kapitall, I found that Squarespace is very resilient.
- Really easy blog import and export functions 

Disadvantages:

- At $8.00 a month for the basic package it costs more than Godaddy at $4.99.  
- Squarespace is young but given that I know they have been cash flow positive since inception I'm not worried about them going anywhere. This is offset by the easy export function, if they have problems I can just export to WordPress, TypePad or Blogger and keep going.
- I cannot import my old entries from the Godaddy Quickblog.
- Since it is new, it does not seem to support of the groovy functionality for instant exporting from tools.  (more on this as I test the "blog this" on my social net work sites. 

I haven't changed the DNS unt