As the director of a class you should have several dedicated servers, a big pipe, & your own 24-7 on-call technician. From which you should offer hosting to your students. Allowing another host to take care of you & all of those clients is ridiculous...you should take full responsibility for all your lets say students (but in reality customers) well-being.
#2 - a host charging you $5.00 per domain moved is HORSESHIT
any host charging for moving domains is a host that doesn't need new customers
#3 - bashing another host is perfectly fine (IM WITH YOU ON THIS ONE)....so long as you don't spend the second half of your thread promoting other hosts....Can we say BAD TASTE?
In conclusion -
All you have proven here tonight (in my opinion) is your lack of technical ability, lack of connections inside the hosting business & possible lack of class.
I would say you have also proven your lack of proper funding...due to the fact you didn't spring for the dedicated, however on further inspection, i would want to be running the exact same setup as my students. So I'll let you slide on that one. However i would like to hear if you sent all your "students" a referral code for when they signed up. So you could take that $2.50 a month from their virtual account revenue. I'm just going to guess you did...LOL A real webmaster would only suggest someone to a customer they know & have trusted for atleast a year +
Happy new year!
sux u had to get pwned.....but consider this a free personal class on board etiquette