In reply to Andrew Wilkinson.

I have used WP engine since they had only one plan $50 they are an excellent managed WordPress hosting provider.

I also have accounts with PressLabs, Pressable, Pagely WebSynthesis & Get Flywheel.

I have tried MT managed WordPress and even Go Daddy to be thorough. They are the same thing same person build both systems and they are slightly different because of SSD's in the media Temple offering.
When you check the MT WP Hosting IP address it comes to the Go Daddy data center in Arizona. It is Go Daddy hosting run by the guys at media Temple I will say media Temple is better than Go Daddy for this.

Back to answering your question
I believe WP engine to be one of the best however GetFlywheel not only offers you a dedicated SSD VPS with your own dedicated IP and outstanding service for a base price of USD15 a month with phone support it is a steal. What is even more remarkable is they have created a bigger plan that allows you to get 10 sites for USD100 or 10 bucks a site. The difference is you do not share this VPS with other people the resources are your own all the time that is important.

Their pricing is unbelievable and so does their service.

Pagely Offers very good service and even though they went away from my go to hosting company FireHost they have re-architected their entire offering making it a much more reliable and faster than before. With some pretty incredible offerings like a VPS with SSH or two load balanced VPS's with the option to separate your database anytime you like.

Pressable Offers five websites with their USD25 plan it is five bucks a site you cannot beat that. With the CDN, Cisco enterprise firewall, F5 load balancers on a private cloud.

WebSynthesis is not my cup of tea though I do have their advanced plan. It is on a media Temple VPS with no SSD's and it is okay. they are starting to use digital ocean over media Temple.
The idea that W3TC is the best thing in the world and their fragment caching is better than anything else is not true. They have recently raised the price to USD50 for one site on its own VPS. Comparing that to GetFlywheel's using digital ocean SSD for only USD15 a month with a better service is well not a hard choice.

SPDY is available through web synthesis and Pressable it does make a difference in speed using SSL however you can host it through a CDN like MaxCDN and that offers SPDY.

PressLabs Is extremely exciting that are not cheap prices start at 150 and 300 a month per the first site. You think that has a lot it is really not if you have a site that gets a lot of traffic and is valuable.

People talk about the cost of hosting and complain about anything over 20 bucks
but take the cost's paid for any service by any company. However, that same company is not going to spend USD200 a month on hosting a website that type of money on the website that faces their entire client base and represents the brand to the world?

is something wrong with what I am saying?

I would not use media Temple or Go Daddy for managed WordPress hosting. It is a joke. Anyone who gets 1 million page views per month should probably invest in higher quality hosting then MT managed WordPress or Go Daddy.

Though I also believe that you get what you pay for.