A business wants to generate more business so they hire a marketing company. Years later they realize they don’t own the website they have put their blood, sweat, and tears into. It’s a shitty situation regardless of the final outcome.

We’ve launched WordPress websites for clients that are the online equivalent of a fast sports car. Yet some clients have then gone against our recommendations and had us move their new site to the lowest possible shared hosting plan from GoDaddy, Bluehost, or…