I keep about thirty client sites running in Amsterdam and I've been using Hetzner for a while now. Their cheapest cloud instance starts around €4/month, so when I see these $1/month hosts disappearing I just shake my head.
Automated off-site backups to geographically diverse locations
DNS management independent of hosting infrastructure
Domain registration with tier-1 accredited registrars
Regular restoration testing
The original poster's predicament illustrates systemic risk concentration. I recommend immediate audit of all critical dependencies.
I've got boxes in Falkenstein and Nuremberg, pay maybe €5-6 for the small stuff, and the performance is ridiculous for what you get. Strict signup checks, no phone support, but you know what you're getting.
Oh man this is exactly why I tell everyone (and I mean everyone including my dentist who asked about hosting his practice website once) that you absolutely cannot trust these fly-by-night operations that promise the moon for pocket change and I remember back in 2019 (or was it 2020 the pandemic years all blur together) I had a similar thing happen with a host that just went dark on a tuesday (tuesdays are cursed I swear) and I lost three years of forum posts (ironic I know given my username) and the worst part was my domain was registered through them too so I couldn't even redirect anywhere and I had to explain to my users why we were suddenly on a free wordpress subdomain and the embarrassment (the sheer embarrassment) still haunts me and you absolutely must must must keep your domain separate and your backups offsite and test your backups because a backup you can't restore is just a f
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