Hosting - price policy and renewal

[sgiobbio]

I have a question on the topic of "Hosting", which I am posting here because there is no proper section dedicated to it.
I hope that one of you webmasters is willing to make a suggestion.

I use for my hosting an excellent American provider, present with its servers also in Europe, whose pricing policy consists of a huge "entry discount" that resets to zero at the renewal.
To put it in a nutshell, it goes from about $130 for a three year period at entry to about $600 for the three year period after renewal.
Obviously, I will not be renewing and have already identified some very interesting alternatives.
My domains are decentralized on Google Domain, so there is nothing to transfer, only the DNS to point to the new hosting, plus Cloudflare is active.

Having said all that, I thought there might be a way to stay with the old hosting. This:

1) purchasing (also in my name) a new three-year web space at a super-discounted introductory rate
2) at the time of purchase, designate as the main domain not the one that is now the main one, but one of the others that are currently hosted (thus "bypassing" the only "pole" that exists at the time of purchase)
3) personally arranging for the manual transfer of my websites from one web space to the other
4) Closing down the old web space upon completion.

Would you consider this an unfair practice?
Would it work?

Thanks for those who would like to give me their opinion ....

[AMurray]

Seems pretty standard practice to me.

I did a similar thing. My old web host did not support Joomla 5 minimum requirements, so I transferred my hosting from my old web host to a new one that did support Joomla 5, and for a cheaper price too.

I'm sure people switching hosts happens all the time. In my view, it's "healthy competition".

[JAVesey]

I did a similar thing. My old web host did not support Joomla 5 minimum requirements, so I transferred my hosting from my old web host to a new one that did support Joomla 5, and for a cheaper price too.

I'm sure people switching hosts happens all the time. In my view, it's "healthy competition".

Agreed. Signed up for a 4-year deal with new hosting company (which supports J5, the old one didn't) for ~40% of the price of 1 year with the original company (which I'd been with for 6 years). Got more resources too.

[Webdongle]

To stay on the same Hosting and act as a new customer would be difficult. They have your name and address and email and payment details (possibly even your phone number). They will will probably not treat you as a new customer. In any case I suggest the first thing you do is create a backup with Akeeba, save it, and test it on localhost.

[sgiobbio]

Thank you for the replies so far but I would like to focus on staying with the same Provider by taking advantage of its new entry superbonus offer, not on changing it.
Of course, Webdongle, I have full copies of my sites in localhost (with laragon).
I am ready to change hosting, but what I am asking in the topic is whether in your opinion the procedure I have described in detail to stay with the old hosting by taking advantage of its superbonus entry rates could work.

[gws]

Try it and see....

[JAVesey]

...but what I am asking in the topic is whether in your opinion the procedure I have described in detail to stay with the old hosting by taking advantage of its superbonus entry rates could work.

Try contacting their sales team. Tell them you're thinking of leaving due to the price and ask if there's anything they can do to help you. You might be surprised.

[sgiobbio]

JAVesey, what you're suggesting is one of the things that I've been thinking about and will certainly try to do.