Two interesting pieces to this article.

GoDaddy is a horrible company run by horrible people selling horrible products.

As an EX-customer of GoDaddy, I agree with this statement. I'm sure there are people in the company that aren't horrible people but their corporate culture makes it seem that way. I've been a very happen Rackspace (private VPS) and Hover customer after changing over.

As for why [Media Temple] decided to finally exit after all this time, co-founder Demian Sellfors said that this was always the plan.

“We’ve had our eye on an exit since we started 15 years ago,” he told me. “We regard ourselves as entrepreneurs first and we designed it for exit from the start, even if on the way we accidentally built a phenomenal culture and a business that resounded with the marketplace.”

After 15 years we've decided to sell off our company but that was always the plan? Why haven't they sold sooner? I think if you spend 15 years on something it's your baby and you should stay the course and not allow your customers to get eaten by the crappy company that purchased you. This reminds me of when Sprint purchased Nextel and how poorly that worked for existing Nextel customers.

http://www.marco.org/2013/10/15/godaddy-mt