After talking to dev, I'm not overly concerned any more. They do seem to care about maintaining user trust. It was down due to ddos and it is now on cloudflare, which will provide some additional overhead.
Also, add 108.162.200.186 btc-e.com to your hosts file. This "dinky little nothing site" happens to be the only exchange so far that covered its users after a 'security breach' (most of them knowingly sold their coins to the 'hacker', too). It was really just the compromised LR API at the root of it.
Even though it's in second place for overall volume to mt. gox, it has so far proven to provide superior customer support.
108.162.200.186 doesn't work for me. That said, I think BitStamp is number two now, (source?)