I was so onboard with Textpattern that I bought their "lifetime" hosting plan back in the day. Some of you probably remember how that went. Wikipedia says that

"On August 16, 2012, individuals who had provided start-up and development funding to Joyent (and its predecessor, TextDrive) in exchange for lifetime shared hosting accounts with Joyent were informed, via email, that their lifetime hosting accounts would be deleted on October 31, 2012... Customer backlash to the announcement turned out to be fierce."

It was a learning moment for me to never trust companies that promise lifetime anything. Once you surrender your money you are without leverage and a promise is little better than a fart in that situation.