Sticking with a hosting provider out of inertia is common, even after things start going downhill. A few signs it might genuinely be time to move on:
- Support response times keep getting worse, especially for anything beyond copy-paste answers.
- Repeated unexplained downtime without a clear root cause or fix from their side.
- Pricing creeps up on renewal well beyond what new customers pay, with no matching improvement in service.
- You've outgrown the plan type entirely and every "optimization" is just a band-aid on a fundamentally undersized setup.
- Your gut keeps telling you something's off, even if you can't point to one specific incident - that pattern of small annoyances usually means something.