Have you ever used more than one hosting service at a time?

[Shawn Gossman]

At one time, I was using Dreamhost and HostGator.

I had a blog on HostGator and the rest of my stuff on Dreamhost.

I did that to test out HostGator. At the time, it was significantly cheaper. But you get what you pay for because, with just one not-so-popular blog, I had tons of problems. I'm just glad I didn't move everything over.

Ultimately, I decided to stay with Dreamhost, and they've been very good to me since.

 

[Tracy]

I don't use "hosting services", but VPS/dedi providers.
And yes, even right now I have two Contabo VPS instances (one for the NodeBB sites and then the other for a friends site and my blog) then my OVH server for my primary site.
I'm not big on shared hosting and haven't been for over a decade. I try to run my own VPS/dedi for the sites I have. It's not that the sites would not work on shared, but it is a hassle if you decide to move off of them to a VPS/dedi down the road. Many of them have you depend on phpMyAdmin to export your database, and all it takes is one glitch in the transfer and your data can be corrupted. Have helped many an admin over the last 12 years because of that.