The clean-exit sequence when a host goes south

The clean-exit sequence when a host goes south
Word is more arbitrage folks are bailing on hosts six months post-buyout, and the messy exits all skip the same steps. Insiders run it in order:
— Stand up the new account and confirm it's billing-active before touching the old one.
— Migrate staging first, let it bake 72 hours, then production.
— Keep the old plan paid through one full DNS propagation cycle plus a buffer week.
— Export logs and email routing config; those vanish first on cancellation.
— Cancel only after the new host serves live traffic with no error spike.
A source tells us most data loss happens because someone cancelled the old box on day one to save a month's fee.
Watch this: cancellation confirmation pages quietly nuke backups.