Escaping Managed Hosting: What Happened When We Migrated a WooCommerce Site to a VPS (And Got Attacked) Managed WordPress hosting sounds like a great deal — until it isn't. This is the story of migrating a WooCommerce + WPML site off a major managed host, the chaos that followed immediately after, and the hard lessons learned about what managed hosting was silently doing for us that we didn't fully appreciate until it was gone. Why We Left Managed Hosting The decision wasn't dramatic. It came down to three compounding frustrations: Cost vs. control. Managed WordPress hosting at the enterprise tier isn't cheap. As traffic and complexity grew, so did the invoice. But the control stayed locked down — no custom server config, limited cache tuning, no ability to see what was actually hitting the server at a low level. Performance ceiling. A WooCommerce store with WPML (multilingual) generates a lot of unique URLs — filtered shop pages, language variants, paginated archives.…