I was surprised to see WPEngine ranked so low... well at least not in the top 5. They get glowing recommendations from many of the WP luminaries in the WP community.

(Note: We have a dedicated server at Pair Networks (pair.com) for the past ten years, but will do client sites at a number of different hosts that clients themselves choose... except we won't do a site on any EIG-owned host or on GoDaddy. We still have the scars from doing sites on those server farms!)