Thanks for the advice.

Moved from Bluehost to Inmotion and it has been a very good experience.

After finally settling on SiteGround for my new quality webhost after fleeing closte.com, I am disappointed to get a warning that my "Inode usage" is at 80% with only 5 websites on a $50/mo plan. This feels like a cynical strategy to force clients into a $100/mo+ plan.

Am I crazy? I've never encountered a "too many inodes" issue in 30 years on the web.

Title. I was willing to pay 8$ a month for a direct ping with a discord webhook when something exploded on my server so I could quickly fix the one service I remotely care about, but I received an email at 4am stating that my plan is getting an "update" and is now 13$ a month (but I can save 1$ a month if I get the annual plan!).

96$ a year to $156 (62.5%, or 50% if you pay $144 a year) is an insane increase when the only things you have to say you improved is a couple of services integrations maybe 4 people worldwide use, and that you "rebuilt your dashboard and apps" and "made an MCP server" (things I'd expect you to do with the money I already pay you).

I'm so fucking tired of every company deciding that their shareholders deserve more so they squeeze the lowest tiers like we're swimming in capital and offering jack shit in return.

Is there a decent replacement for this slop, I literally just need something that pings my frontend/API, can fire a Discord webhook on a failure, and has a decent looking status page? Or is it just cheaper to rent a VPS, point it myself and home cook this thing.

Been trying to clean up my little stack and move a few domains off random old providers. I kinda want one place that can handle domains and basic email and simple hosting without it turning into some giant cloud project.

For context its like 5 small sites, a couple inboxes per domain, nothing huge, but I care about dns reliability and not getting stuck in some nightmare ui. Been looking at the usual big names and idk if i should just split it up or keep it all in one spot. Appreciate any thoughts.

My sites hosted with Namecheap have been experiencing intermittent downtime for the past few weeks, and it's badly impacting my business and projects
I have contacted support but noone can do anything

What are your experiences with Namecheap's reliability lately? Are you considering switching providers if so who are you looking at? I am feeling i should have chosen something else other than Namecheap for all my domains

Over the last year my website got hacked twice, maybe cuz of an outdated plugin, there is nothing unusual in the website, just a regular business page. Can the hosting provider somehow save from hacking?

I'm now on GoDaddy, checkin out Host inger, they seem pretty popular - seen that they're fast and secure, but Idk how to check if this is true.

Who was hacked, did changing the hosting help reducing the risk?