I was getting hundreds of spam comments every night – I’ve gotten only 15 spam comments since I made these updates!

It’s a pretty close race, but I know what I consider important when installing and managing WordPress. Here’s who I like for this round.

I’ve installed and configured over 50 WordPress blogs at CartikaHosting, and I can confirm that it really is a 5 minute install. But how do MediaLayer and Media Temple compare?

I’m excited to start using MediaLayer after my excellent introduction to their services.

I can’t wait to see how Media Temple handles WordPress installations. I’m expecting fast and simple. Will they let me down?

If you run into a problem with your Feedburner RSS feed, ping it!

Thanks, David Walsh, for a quick and easy way to redirect my blog to a ‘Maintenance’ page while I update to WordPress 2.9.

I posted a 1.5MB page tonight for my Webhosting Shootout – lots of screenshots and of course, my WordPress site is FAST on CartikaHosting and Amazon S3/Cloudfront.