Even though the lag problem seems to have cleared up now after repeated emails to the webhost, an associate i met recently with several businesses in Australia is going to be starting his own hosting company soon, complete with it's own servers and not reselling another company. So we might end up migrating the bulk of the Website Crunch sites there. 

I will see how it goes with pricing, performance and the physical specs of the machines. I will eventually be investing in a dedicated machine when the site income reaches enough to cover the costs of a dedicated host.

EDIT:

Another associate also has a hosting service so lots of options abound.