The migration of the blog off my friends shared environment (Thanks Allison!) is complete. Welcome to the new service!
NameCheap has been advertising their EasyWP hosting service for a while, and given it’s relatively inexpensive model ($3/mo-ish), and the fact that I was having a hard time figuring out how to get full SSL service on the blog, I figured the time was right.
The migration was pretty painless, and I used LetsEncrypt to generate the SSL cert. Because Google downranks sites without SSL support, finally having this in place is a big win.
Onward!