I've been on forums, reddit, and twitter, and I see the outrage. I too, hated using Hostinger back in the day. Here's an article I wrote that sums up what's been going on, why people are pissed, and what they can do.
Hope this helps.
Opensolr now has a free forever plan
Not a trial. No countdown, no expiry date, no credit card field anywhere. You sign up with a name and an email, you get a fully managed Opensolr Index in a few seconds, and you keep it for as long as you use it.
What you get on the free plan:
What is not included: Web Crawler, backups, search analytics, AI and hybrid search. Those stay on the paid plans.
One rule worth knowing: the plan never expires, but an index that sees nothing at all for 30 days can be cleaned up. Logging in, indexing a document, changing the config or running a single query all count as activity, so normal use keeps it alive.
Full details on the free plan: https://opensolr.com/learn/billing/34/solr-cloud-free-membership
Sign up: https://opensolr.com/register
Paid plans, if you outgrow it: https://opensolr.com/pricing
Earlier this year I inquired about the details for upgrading my hosting package to a newer server, and without request or approval, they went and migrated my plan to a new server. With multiple clients served through my server, you can imagine the uproar this caused when the server IP and name were suddenly changed. This started a week-long tier-3 struggle to return my package back to the original server, and recover lost email during the downtime. That eventually passed, and I did what I could to retain those clients who were affected.
Over the next few months there would be site outages, and since I work on my server full-time, I was usually the first to report problems. Unfortunately, support would dismiss my complaints entirely, and then hours later issue an update on their Status page. It would take days just to get a human response on the cause, or an answer as to why my ticket was dismissed.
Today I made the mistake of reporting an issue with a cPanel log-reporting feature. Without warning or permission, their agent went into a customer's email account via Roundcube and sent out test emails to different accounts on another domain I manage. You can imagine the confusion this caused - especially since the issue was was with a cPanel tool and not email delivery. They refused to address this concern, and now pretend that I did not directly ask about it.
At this point, I absolutely regret hosting with them. A2 was great when I started with them in 2018, but in the past few year's the service and product have really sunk to new lows.
I'm not a fan of vibe coding, especially with WordPress, but I think it may have an advantage in terms of security.
Unlike public WordPress plugins, the source code of vibe coded plugins remains private and only to the website owner can see it.
Hackers find vulnerabilities in plugins by scanning their source code, but that's not possible with vibe coded plugins unless the hacker gets access to the PHP files on the server.
That solves like 90% of the WordPress security problem, then creates different problems of its own!