I just canceled service after 5 years. We used to be very happy with their VPS hosting. But...

I just canceled service after 5 years. We used to be very happy with their VPS hosting. But they were purchased a few months ago and the data center was moved.

The move itself was managed terribly. They set weekend dates for the move and postponed last minute on 3 occasions. The last time, they suddenly had the brilliant idea to migrate on a Tuesday???? So we were down for a FULL 24 hours while they migrated all VPS at once. They picked a ridiculous time to migrate, and they did it very poorly. They should have done a portion at a time and had a real strategy. Any 24 hour downtime is completely ridiculous with business hosting.

Then we started to have outages under their new datacenter. Turns out they have unknown hardware problems (they claim). Our VPS had 4 or 5 serious outages, some for 12+ hours. Again, completely unacceptable.

now trying to reach support is such a painful experience. They outsource their front line call center overseas. You can imagine the nightmare that is now Apollo support.

They have a VPS support line - supposedly "experts". I called to have our host name changed. They promised to escalate to someone who could do it and I would have a call back in 2 hours to confirm. 24 hours later nothing was done and no callbacks. That was the straw that broke the camels back.

I just changed to a new provider (wiredtree.com) and I am thrilled. What a breath of fresh air... and you know what... shock of all shocks... our web site now stays up!! Imagine that.