Site is now running on an Azure Linux VM
I'm happy to report that I'm mostly done migrating my site from Shared GoDaddy to a dedicated VM on Azure!
Knowing that I would need a 2nd site for my personal business (more on this soon), I spent the last few weeks reviewing hosting options for either shared or dedicated hosting. I read a lot of review and finally made the jump to an azure VM.
Reasoning
Price-wise, for about the same amount I get a dedicated VM that I can do whatever I want with (multi site wordpress, services etc)
Pros:
Low cost (24 CAD$ / month Pay-As-You-Go or 9.95 CAD$ / month for 3 years)
More consistent performance
Can easily scale up / down resources (CPU + RAM) as needed
Access to the full cloud infrastructure as needed (backups, virtual network, other VM, storage, tiered storage e...