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Pay monthly or yearly for hosting?

Web Hosting by Elena 31 replies 5.3K views
#31

Ha, yeah

engzur said:
Four months of "scheduled maintenance" sounds like a liquidation with extra steps Anyway, since this thread's been dead for three months...

I never did get the rest of that three years back, obviously, and the "amazing deal" turned out to be me funding someone's exit strategy

These days I do month-to-month with Vultr for the main stuff and keep a cold backup at OVHcloud that I pay for yearly but it's cheap enough that losing it wouldn't hurt

The real lesson was that "too cheap to be sustainable" is a red flag I was determined to ignore because the number looked good

Sorry to bump an old thread but seeing 277 days made me wonder if Elena ever found a setup that worked or if she's still out there being furious somewhere

#32

277 days, but this still matters because people keep making the same mistake.

Elena said:
They went bust six months in no refund no data no nothing

This is exactly why I split my yearly budget across two providers now. Primary at InterServer, warm standby at RackNerd. If one vanishes I point DNS and I'm live in ten minutes. Costs more, sleeps better.

Yearly discounts are bait. The math only works if they survive, which you can't know.

Did anyone actually get a refund from a dead host here, ever?

siesta first, deploy later

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