Around Black Friday last November, I moved my website from SiteGround to Bluehost. This was not some ambitious infrastructure decision. SiteGround wanted roughly five times more at renewal, and both providers are shared hosting anyway. Bluehost was materially cheaper and advertised 99.9% uptime, which seemed good enough on paper. For a personal website, forty-three minutes of downtime a month did not sound like a serious trade-off. I do not need elite infrastructure for a blog. But I also do not want emails from updown.io telling me the site is down, or someone complaining that it broke halfway through reading. So I did the migration. Boy, was it painful. The dashboards tells the story well enough. The site was not catastrophically down, but it was noisy enough to keep eroding confidence. Response times varied more than I liked, and Bluehost still fell short of its advertised 99.9% uptime . None of the support interactions, including the escalation path, felt technical enough to diagnose anything properly.…