Many of the sites that used to get posted there were doing so in a last desperate effort to gain clients and become profitable. That meant sites would get list

Many of the sites that used to get posted there were doing so in a last desperate effort to gain clients and become profitable. That meant sites would get listed, get clients, then fold. If price is your sole concern, and you can (re)deploy quickly, easily, and have good monitoring in place, then it was a reasonable place to go. If not you'd be better picking a reliable brand with history.