From IONOS Rage-Quit to Self-Hosted Freedom: How a 120 Euro Bill Improved ForgeCMS

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 backup for 70,- EUR... FU was my answer ;-) When a provider holds your infrastructure hostage over a billing dispute, you don't negotiate. You migrate. Green field I had been planning to self-host on my own 1 Euro VPS using ForgeCMS anyway. The plan was just... not today. IONOS made the decision for me. This forced exactly the feature I had been postponing: multi-site hosting from a single ForgeCMS binary . What we built One Go binary, multiple domains ForgeCMS is a single Go executable. It receives