They told you: "Free migration in, easy to leave anytime"

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 zones, and cron jobs had to be rebuilt by hand. The "backup" download was a format only their panel could read. An agency moving 6 sites billed 22 hours of labor — roughly $2,200 — to escape a $9/month plan.
Follow the money: the harder the exit, the longer you keep paying not to deal with it.
Reality: free to enter, expensive to leave — that's the whole business model.