I cannot find it now. Maybe I imagined it. Disregard.
What do you use for price tracking across hosts?
I am late to this but: for managed hosting like KnownHost, the listed price and the price after you ask sales for a migration discount are different worlds. No scraper captures that. I just email them every renewal.
SystemsLeb said:
Email them every renewal
This works for one host. I have twelve. I am not writing twelve emails. The whole point of automation is to avoid being a small business that dies because the owner spent Tuesday haggling over $4/month.
It's always DNS. Always.
Same here re: twelve emails. I automated the email instead. Python, yagmail, template with last year's price and competitor quote. Sends from a Gmail I only use for hosting. About 30% get a human reply with a better number.
What about hosts that use Cloudflare bot fight? My scraper for one unnamed provider started getting 403s in January. Not rate limit -- full challenge page. I gave up.