Talk about coincidence. We just started looking for a service like MWP. Now that they are going with GD, we will look elsewhere.

GD is not going to be able to change their service because hosting is not their core business and it is never going to be their core business. They are a fairly adequate registrar but from day one their hosting business has never performed and their concept of 'managed WordPress' was laughable at the start and has continued to be so.

We have a rule we enforce. We will not take on a client who wants us to build them a website on GD or any ISP owned by Endurance Intl. We've been there, we've done that, and we have the arrows in our backs to prove it.

When I think of all the really good companies that MWP could have gone to, I can only surmise that GD bought them for far more than they are worth making everyone in the company very wealthy. As usual, most will leave and the service will degrade. Just look what happened to Small Orange and Bluehost and a bunch of what were A+ ISPs before EIG took them over.