I'm hoping to open registrations this weekend. Working out a few final things, server is all setup and ready to go. Domains will be setup for Google Apps from the get-go, you just have to sign up (link and info will be in the registration email).
Details:
Washington DC datacenter with a 24x7 managed, premium enterprise host on an 8-core Xeon dedicated server, 15K RPM SAS drives in RAID 10 and 6 gigs of RAM
Standard plan: 10GB, 50GB bandwidth - 10$/month, or 100$/year prepaid, no contract
cPanel, unlimited subdomains, databases, etc
All the latest and super optimized - Apache 2.2, nginx front-loader, PHP 5.3.2, and MySQL 5.1, also Python/Ruby - shell access if you want it
phpVMS comes ready to install (just create the database), but you can install anything
Instant (or close to) activation of your account when you register.
So - hopefully this weekend!
If you want to test pings to where you are, you can ping fivedev.net