Awknet Has Fallen (if It Was Ever Up)

About 2 weeks ago good friend of mine and Administrator for a community of about 60,000 enjoying a gaming community.

It's been offline about 60% of the entire time, with awknet taking on average 3 days to respond to our emails with some pathetic excuses telling us that it's probably our fault, when it was not.

Today my friend decided after their services being piss poor, and contact very unreachable he tried out their IRC channel, asked questions etc and they approached him very rude, unprofessional and unreliable. He then said he will take all the data off the server, and demand a refund, they then made excuses saying how the refund would not be possible etc. Not long after that they kicked, then banned him from the IRC channel.

This is the most unprofessional host i have ever seen, at first for the first 2 days they were great (obviously) then it went straight downfall.

I saw the other thread from marwolf about this same thing, at first i thought their may have been some sort of mistake that they accidental banned my friend from their IRC, until i read his thread.

While I'm on it, can anyone reply with any sub 250$ decent spec DDoS protected host's?