Homepage of the Dead was a moment away from dying today

I had an automatic renewal fire through today for my hosting charges. It was around 3X what I paid last time (renews every 2yrs).

I contacted the company and the amount they were willing to reduce it by was so little, even after tens of minutes and me proclaiming the site had been with then for 25yrs and being forced to close it over a huge price hike was heart breaking, I was seemingly left with nothing to do but close up shop. I even asked to repeatedly speak to a supervisor etc etc. I was about to do the horrid dead but the line dropped/failed.

I contacted them again half an hour later and this time they about halved the cost. It's still around double my last cost, so annoyingly high, but I just didn't have the heart to turn off the life support :(

So the site lives on but with price hikes like that it's getting hard to justify :(

Happy the place is still going. But, seriously, if the site is costing you too much to keep going then it might be worth letting it end. No sense in getting into financial difficulties for a website.

A 3x price hike though? Fuck me. What was their justification for that?

It seems these days, companies think that they can just lob on any old price increase to their "product" and everyone will just play along.

Price gouging chancers. :(

When this comes up for renewal again Neil please put it out in the wild.
I would be more than willing to help with costs. If you don't want to do that then shoot me a message.
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