The "free site builder" is a roach motel They told you: "Use our easy builder, no code needed." What you weren't told: that builder outputs proprietary markup, not portable HTML or a standard CMS. The…
The 99.9% guarantee that pays you in pennies Myth: "They guarantee 99.9% uptime, so downtime costs them." Read the SLA. 99.9% permits 43 minutes of downtime a month — that's the promise, not the floor…
"Unlimited bandwidth" — until you're popular They told you: "Unmetered bandwidth, scale freely." Bandwidth was never the trap. The trap is what happens when a post goes viral and you finally use it: C…
The intro price is a loan you repay forever Myth: "$2.95/mo — what a deal." Look at the renewal column, not the signup column. That $2.95 becomes $11.99 — a 4x jump — and it's locked to a 36-month ter…
The "unlimited storage" that runs out at 300k files They told you: "Unlimited disk space, host as much as you want." Then your WooCommerce cache, your email, and your backups generate 300,000 tiny fil…
The 99.9% uptime that's actually a brownout Myth: "My shared host is up, so I'm fine." Uptime monitors ping a static health page. They don't measure CPU throttling. On oversold shared boxes, your acco…
