What is a fast Wordpress Host?

[nwrafting]

I have 8 or so sites hosted with Dreamhost and my main web site (http://www.nwrafting.com) is a Wordpress site hosted there as well. I'd like to move it to another hosts so that it isn't seen as related to my other sites that link to it.

My other sites are good informational sites (example: http://www.caliriver.com) and are not doorway pages, but they do provide good links to my main business. This is a good idea to move my main sight, right?

If so, can someone recommend a good host for me to put my one Wordpress site on? I'm looking for something that will load my pages fast.

Please don't send me an affiliate link - I want to choose the best host not the one that pays the biggest commission.

Thanks!

[KeriMorgret]

Just a side note, it's still easy for the search engines to tell the sites are connected when you're using the same Google Analytics account. Check out http://spyonweb.com/www.caliriver.com

[mbcurtis]

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[milancole]

Some shared hosts are certainly faster than others, but in many cases, adding a Wordpress caching plugin will give the biggest performance improvement to a Wordpress site.

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization/Caching

[Highland]

Have you considered wordpress.com? You can import your entire existing Wordpress blog pretty painlessly and then it costs $12/yr to point your domain to it (so you would retain all your URL structures). The only downsides are it can be tricky to get your users all mapped (provided you have more than 1) and you can't keep any custom templates. But it's pretty fast and very reliable, plus you would never have to upgrade your site.