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Real Results: Switching to SiteGround After 6 Months
Moved a WordPress + WooCommerce site off Bluehost to SiteGround GrowBig in October 2025. Page load dropped 60 percent, support actually answered, and the renewal price doubled.
Real Results: Switching to WP Engine After 6 Months
Moved a higher-traffic WordPress publication from SiteGround to WP Engine in October 2025. The page-cache stack that doubled cached responses. The price that triples the bill. The Local development sync that surprised me.
Real Results: Switching to AWS Lightsail After 6 Months
Moved a side project off Hetzner to AWS Lightsail in October 2025. The pricing simplicity surprised me; the storage and networking gotchas caught me twice; the AWS migration path saved future work.
Real Results: Switching to DigitalOcean After 6 Months
Moved a small SaaS off AWS to DigitalOcean on October 6, 2025. Halved the bill, learned which DO managed services pay off, and the App Platform feature I would not use again.
Real Results: Switching to Vercel After 6 Months on EC2
Migrated a Next.js 14 app off EC2 and onto Vercel Pro on October 2, 2025. Bandwidth costs tripled at first, then halved after one config fix. Deploy times went from 9 minutes to 38 seconds.