Yikes. As someone brand new to Concrete5, your comments on the product worry me!
Although - not sure about c5spot.com being out of the Concrete5 business :
https://twitter.com/goradiantweb...

The fact that a 3rd party company decided they didn't want to be in the
budget hosting business means nothing to us here at portlandlabs (company
behind concrete5.)

w3techs says we continue to grow at 40% annually:
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-concrete5/all/all...

apologies if there's a bug patch you've submitted on github that hasn't
been approved in the 5.6 branch yet, but our team is focused on 5.7 at the
moment and the approach has been to keep 5.6 in maintenance and security
update mode only.

yeah, I mean we couldn't get the margin where we wanted it. People want dirt cheap and amazing support. The only way that happens honestly is with volume. And that was not something I had envisioned for us as a company. At the time when we began running that APC caching was very important and not widely used among budget hosts...so we set something up. APC is not really C5's best caching at this time...so things change and we decided it was time to close that arm of business. We still host some of our clients and offer private support and hosting. But dirt cheep hosting is not what we care to be. As Franz said, this has nothing to do with the platform or how it is performing.