Partnership going bad?, domain being held hostage?, your hosting company an unspeakable word?, no matter what your reason, I'll make an emergency backup of your Drupal site and copy the tarballs to wherever you want [1].
To be able to do this, I will need one of these accesses (in order of easiest to hardest):
I have a barebones testing VPS, which, as they are insanely cheap, I think everyone should have one. True, these aren't really usable by retail website owners, but if you're in IT and take QA seriously they're wonderful.
The one big issue with these are having to rebuild them from scratch when you want to try a different set of software packages that will emulate a clean production build and configuration. The solution was relatively easy, but the journey was a pita.
SolusVM's Central Backup seemed to be the ideal solution, but, it's not:
