Great PR from Code Spaces
Ok, I ought to give credit where it's due because you won't find this great example of "how to do PR properly" unless you're searching the site.
Floyd Price of Code Spaces posted a comment on an old Subversion post and did a great job of answering my pointed questions. I haven't switched; I haven't even tried their service, but Floyd did do a good enough job that it's now on my to-do list... read the comments.