Vent: Picked a cheap hosting plan over a solid one and paid for it all week

I had to choose between a $3 a month host with 24/7 chat support and a $12 one with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. I went cheap because I'm tight on cash after the holidays. My site went down three times in one week and support took over 6 hours to reply each time. Lost about 40 visitors from a blog post I worked on for 2 days. Has anyone else been burned by a budget host like that?

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eric_price11d ago

Used to think cheap hosting was fine. Not anymore.

the_cora11d ago

Bought a cheap host once and basically paid them to take my site down for fun. 6 hour support replies? That's not support, that's a hostage situation. Hope that $9 saved was worth the therapy.