In reply to Matt.

With no disrespect intended, Matt, I can't believe you really know what the BlueHost experience is like. It's great if your site has no visitors. Your site will be quite slow normally and will go down under load. While at GoDaddy the technical problems appear to have improved, there are serious ethical issues. Do you, we, Wordpress develoeprs really support elephant hunting?

Surely Wordpress.org can do better than recommend EIG. The argument above is that Wordpress.org/Automattic was selling the spots to the highest bidder.

Like so many aspects of Wordpress and Wordcamp, there seems to be an incredible hypocrisy and cynicism setting into the idealistic dreams of our youth. Whether it's Jetpack trying to whack as many premium plugin areas as it can in a borg like bundle, barring long term Wordpress developers from Wordcamp after years of sponsorship and participation (our case), core developers bullying the community (the menu customizer debacle), there seems to be no end to recent disillusionment.

Hopefully at least with the hosting section, we can try to get back on the high ground.