I've had a run in with a few web hosting companies when customers wanted to move on, but these are the exception to the rule.
What could they possibly teach you about web design with a WYSIWYG editor? Did you learn, html, CSS, or how to use any of the main web site editing tools such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage. In my experience, a lot of othrer WYSIWYG editors tend to produce html code that is spaghetti - this can be a nightmare for search engines to index - Apple's iWeb is bad for this and I came across one recently which just seems to be called 'WYSIWYG Editor' or something like that which is just as bad.
For the price you're paying I'm imagining an ASP website with a VSP (Virtual Private Server) and a beefy bandwidth? Maybe your WYSIWYG Editor is actually a content managment system?
Is your web host local btw, since Perth is expensive for everything - except
SEO, that seems to be pretty cheap compared to the UK.