Good ol' Aldryic >_>
Get a few drinks in him, some late night pizza, & a sit in the hot tub and he goes stampeding for peoples faces >_>
I'll try to restate things nicer than Aldryic. I never forgave the site ripping of many hosts (not just the 2 mentioned here) and have gone out of my way to help them. Be it doing my best to recover a trashed array or trying to direct some sales to them for areas we aren't in at this time.
Look at it from an outsider. "Ashley" created boxsrv then sold it to...Ashley. The site was changed later on and later renamed to VMPORT. VMPORT went through 3 - 4 designs and was then sold. While the details of the sale to URPAD was never documented, more than a few people said it was nasty to put it lightly.
You formed a new brand with the aim of doing things a lot better than you first run, only to sell it < 1 year later. You had at least 1 post up that you were closing out your east coast (NJ?) location only for the terms of that to suddenly change due to some deal you cut with your datacenter.
That deal didn't matter, though, since you still sold it a few months later on the basis of "Screw this childish BS I need to get a real living". You get my praise for at least admitting to that and hopefully going through with it. There is countless hosts around that shouldn't be in this business, not only because of technical skill, but because they aren't pricing themselves properly to get more staff onboard and or enough for them to cover their own salaries.
There's simply too many hosts that have owners with 2+ jobs just to get things by. There has been too many stories on WHT where said owners lose one of those jobs and has to close that brand because the brand was never breaking even. Their hopes were to either sell out to someone or to get enough sales to buy themselves into better pricing brackets.
Francisco