yes -- the "significant" raise in prices is probably the best news i'd heard out of them in ages.
going Chicken Little about the whole thing is a little out of the way. i'm cynical about the whole affair (it's so cheap, how??) but at the moment it's what i can afford, so while i'm broke and completely unwilling to go freespace, i'll use it. so far, i admit, i've been VERY satisfied with my use with them. spoiled even. their servers are nice and snappy. my websites have had minimal downtime, except for when they moved their datacenter -- a move that pretty much started July 3rd.
i'm not a rabid believer of them, or anything, but i'll say that so far their trackrecord is impressive. except for the very stupid mistake of not telling their customer base that they were EXPECTING the outage that started on the 3rd -- notifying everyone about the outage, the DAY OF the outage was a little bit...well, idioitic.
but they are offering 3 months free service as compensation for all active users who suffered for it. i know my webtraffic has been very wounded from it.... so it's only right that they offer compensation.
but 'dead'?
well.
not yet. hopefully not for a while, anyways.