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WordPress hosting is a support product wearing a speed costume. Fast TTFB is nice. A backup you have restored once is nicer. This is not a ranking of every cPanel reseller on earth.
Managed vs cheap VPS
Managed WordPress (WP Engine, Kinsta, or a careful Cloudways/DigitalOcean stack) costs more and fails less at 2 a.m. A $5 VPS is fine if you can SSH, update PHP, and you enjoy that. LiteSpeed on a decent VPS is plenty for a mid-size affiliate blog.
Backup restore tests
Ask how to restore a single post from yesterday. If the answer is a forum thread from 2019, leave. Off-server backups matter; a snapshot on the same dying disk is a souvenir.
When to move hosts
Move when support blames your theme for their overloaded node. Move when PHP is stuck two versions behind. Confirm email stays on the old MX until the cutover — mail is easier to break than WordPress.
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