A few years back I signed up with VodaHost for a website. I liked the software and the interface. However, today the service seems awful expensive and not as good as before. What would you recommend I change too. I used their software to build the site. I might be stuck with them because of this.
Do you have FTP access? Is your website under public_html? Download it to your local PC. Then open up the index file. If it works - then you probably don't need to stick with them to keep your website. There's plenty of alternatives out there, though. Generally speaking, a lot of website builders aren't great. You could get further with a pre-made Wordpress template (free or otherwise) - or any other CMS for that matter (Joomla, Drupal).
what web site builder program do they have loaded on the server. I might be able to direct you to someone that has the same thing.
They use "BlueVoda" a software they developed in house, as for OP moving should not be that hard getting files and database should be easily doable via their panel but since they use their site builder you won't be able to use it to update the site in future. That's being said there plenty of other software that you could use who would do around the same jobs as i understand BlueVoda is simply an html editor and publish everything on your behalf via FTP.
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