They told you: "Free migration in, easy to leave anytime" Getting in took 20 minutes. Getting out took 3 weeks. The host used a proprietary control panel with no standard cPanel export; email, DNS zon…
Myth: "This review site ranked Host X #1 because it's best" A webmaster cross-checked 9 "top hosting" listicles against each host's affiliate payout. The pattern: the #1 spot correlated 0.0 with indep…
They told you: "2 GB RAM guaranteed on this VPS" A "2 GB" budget VPS kept killing MySQL at 3am. The customer was using 1.4 GB. The cause: the host oversold the physical node 4:1, and under neighbor pr…
Myth: "99.9% uptime guarantee means they owe you when it's down" A host's site was down 7 hours one month — that's 99.05%, well under the SLA. The customer filed for the guaranteed credit. The fine pr…
They told you: "$2.95/month hosting, lock in your savings" The intro price was $2.95. The renewal, 12 months later: $11.99 — a 306% jump on a 3-year term billed upfront ($431 at renewal vs $106 first …
Myth: "Our shared CPU is plenty for a small store" A store doing 40 orders/day was fine — until traffic hit. The host's CloudLinux LVE capped them at 100% of one core. Checkout PHP that ran in 50ms st…
