Domain Transfer -- Thoughts? Recommendations?

Back in OR, we changed our ISP -- and thus, our email addresses -- no fewer than FOUR TIMES in eight years.  To prevent that, we registered our own domain (a .net address) when we moved, figuring that we could host it anywhere without having to change the email addresses.

Well, we're starting to have access issues with Simplehost, the host with whom we registered.  Not our basic website so much as email access -- online email pages just fail to load, and my wife's Outlook hangs when trying to Send/Receive.

Thinking about transferring the domain to a new host, and I'm wondering what all that entails.  We have almost no files stored with SH, just emails.

I briefly surfed the godaddy.com site.  Seems OK ... but are they?

(God, I feel like Jules.)

I use godaddy for handling domains, but not for email/webhosting.  There's almost always some sort of discount code floating around to knock a few $ off the price of a domain.

I remember the transfer process going smoothly, but again I only did the domains and not email/webhosting.

master of your own?

Cheeky bastard.

And yet you offer no alternate suggestions?

Can't speak to westhost.com - never heard of them - but in peeking around their site I see that they use the South Jordan Consonus facility as their data center.  Easily the best facility in SLC with redundant levels of redundancy.  We're in their downtown location.   

I nominate Spacey and his Hell Bent for Leather family for the intimidation duties.  As far as I can tell he's solely responsible for bringing the bad boy vibe back to Bountiful, Utah.

As for my recommendation... is it really possible no one has gone with 'really long cables' yet?