When you initiate such search you need to check Data Centers where wenb hosting providers are located.
Check:
http://corespace.com/
As far as I know they have the best Data Center

From the personal experience I recommend to rely on Power up hosting. It provides best services then other hosting provider. You will get low cost plans and high stability of servers.

Having my own web site since last 3 years, I can say easily it’s Serveria that’s got the fastest service amongst all, it has cool features including 32GB DDR3 RAM, 2TB HDD RAID, 1Gbit/100Mbit port and with them you will hardly see the web site down due to almost 100% guarantee of no downtime while they also have got 14 days money back guaranteed, but the kind of service we get it’s never required!

For me Uptime and Speed, Support and Price are very important factors when choosing a right web host. Would also prefer a cpanel host.

Each person has different needs.. In my above example, what if I wanted 5mb disk space, 5gb transfer, something really small, but wanted 512mb guaranteed RAM? could a host compensate without necessarily try to sign me up for an $80/mo plan with 20mb disk space, 500 GB transfer, etc etc?

Host Surf UK is worth visiting once. You can get better services at very cost effective rates.

Hosting services provider that offers cloud hosting and web hosting services with affordable price is cloudongo.