I simply referred people to a better provider that I can trust, if they were not sure where to go, with sufficient time to back up and migrate; better than your personal information and VPS data being sold or transferred to a company you may not trust with no option for it not to happen which is would have happened in a sale.I think he just means that the doors are finally closed, whereas his last post was an announcement that they'd be closing soon.
How come you didn't try to sell? Regardless of size, certainly someone would have picked up your clients for some $$.