In reply to Jeffrey.

Same here. I had some bad luck timing; first trying out Arvixe just after they'd been bought up by EIG and had nothing but awful performance from day one. Then when I finally had enough and left Hostgator, I moved to Site5, but Site5 was bought by EIG less than 6 months later!

My Hostgator experience as they slid downhill was amazing. They wouldn't believe me when I told them they had a routing problem after the move to the Provo data center, not until another friend sent me the traceroutes from outside their network to show them what was going on because they couldn't see it from their internal network (they'd forgotten to delete a route to a temporary server that had been put in place to facilitate the move... one that stayed there 6 months longer than it should have).

EIG is nothing but bad news for small-mid sized hosting options.