Hosting Down Again? When to Fix and When to Move

Repeated downtime is not bad luck, it is data. Here is a simple framework for deciding whether to keep fighting your current host or migrate.nn

Count the incidents, not the apologies

nOne bad month can be a fluke. Three incidents in six months is a pattern. Support quality during incidents matters more than any feature list.nn

Check what “support” actually includes

nIf every ticket ends with “please contact your plugin developer”, your host is renting you a server, not maintaining a platform.nn

Test restore speed before you need it

nAsk your host to restore last night’s backup on a staging URL. Time it. If recovery takes more than an hour, your backup plan is decoration.nn

Migrating is cheaper than you think

nA planned WordPress migration with a staging rehearsal and a redirect map takes a day of work and protects everything you built. Compare that to lost sales during the next outage.nn

If two of those four points made you wince, start planning the move this month, on your schedule, not during the next crash.