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and my Internet service provider also offers both. I pay for each of mine separately -- and this kind of situation is precisely the reason why.
Handing off control of your ad placements is one thing, but if you don't control your files and hosting, you DON'T control your content and editorial. And I hope Snopes has the actual Snopes.com name registered independently.
The owner of an international message board which I frequent threatened to shut it down because we wouldn't all buy subscriptions, and then he offered to sell it off. The price included the board's Web hosting, but I pointed out that if the board couldn't be sold without it, it wasn't really his to sell. Only the board's physical files, databases of member accounts and posts, and (in many but not all cases) domain name were of value. It is up to the buyer to supply the Web hosting, Internet access, and software for the board's visual layout -- so his asking price would therefore have to be reduced considerably. He changed his mind about selling.
When the company where I started my first blog was sold, and when I've needed Web hosting with better pricing or more advanced features, I have simply found a new Web host; uploaded the latest copies of my databases and physical files to its server (from my home computer -- cloud servers should be used for storage and backup ONLY); and sent redirect instructions to my domain registrar: THAT'S what you should be able to do if things should become "acrimonious."
Let this be a lesson to all: Web content service providers are for supplying Web content services -- supplying and controlling your web CONTENT is YOUR job.
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