From IONOS Rage-Quit to Self-Hosted Freedom: How...

The bill that started it all IONOS sent me a 120 Euro invoice. Two domains at 42 Euro each - way more than I originally paid for them. Plus some positions I was sure I had cancelled months ago. I paid what I could. They locked every server on my account. No warning. No partial restore. Everything gone overnight. I cancelled all contracts the next day. They pulled the servers immediately - even though the contracts had months left to run. No grace period. Clean cut. The support offered me a backu