Narrowing Down VPS Choices

I am looking for a VPS host in the $50 dollar range for 2 small to medium sized vBulletin forums. I have read about RAM usage and hope that the price I can afford can handle a not so big vBulletin forum or two, I will optimize them anyway but still. I am also concerned about mysql max connection errors.

Two, among others, of the names that I keep seeing good things about are liquidweb and jaguarpc, however I notice through google cache that liquidweb used to have a customer forum, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore? maybe there is a good explanation that I am missing? but support forum not existing anymore doesn't sound good in my opinion.

Jagaurpc's own forums has around 30 'emergency maintenance' threads over the last 6 weeks alone, again that doesn't sound good to me, even if it means that they are on top of it still so many 'emergency' situations can't be good?

Of course I prefer to have managed VPS as the above two seem to offer and helpfulness especially initially during setup. I hope to get opinions on these couple of issues specific to them and general recommendations on VPS