There is no way to get around paying if they have absolute control over hosting. Maybe you could complain to them that the CMS doesn't have an inline CSS editor for modifying the theme, and an upload image control to add theme images - but I doubt they would make that, because it leaves room for things going wrong if you mess with those things. Having control over everything is a way of making sure nothing goes wrong, but it comes at a price.

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