@Kevin Muldoon - if there is one thing I've learned while supporting a very popular commercial plugin for WordPress used on over 250,000 sites it's that there are a lot of very bad web hosts and in my experience you typically get what you paid for. There are exceptions, but in general the low cost hosts can end up costing you time and money with annoying issues.

If you rely on WordPress as a vital part of your business and find $50 or even $100 a month too much for hosting than you may be doing something wrong.

For non-business sites, hobby sites and early stage business sites the low cost hosts can do the job. But if you start getting a lot of traffic, require more server resources or require more reliable service for mission critical uptime and responsive support you'll want to stay away from the cheap hosts.

We've BlueHost and had a good experience, but eventually we hit a wall and our server resource needs could not be met. We switched to FireHost and went from paying next to nothing per month to a few hundred per month. But we wouldn't do it any differently. FireHost is as rock solid as it gets. Which is why services such as WPEngine and Page.ly rely on them for their infrastructure.

Depending on your needs those are the 3 hosts I'd recommend. Page.ly, WPEngine and FireHost.