I have been at BlueHost since forever. http://www.porkopolis.org/ They provide me inexpensive shared hosting that performs very well, they are continually improving hardware & software, and their phone-in support is always spot-on and very knowledgeable. So, I have WordPress, phenomenal _and free_ software, that runs on a host I pay a small amount of $ to each year, and damn(!) things are good...

And Jeff, I appreciate how well you and Sarah often walk the line of writing/working for WordPress & "under the Automattic umbrella" and also responsibly critiquing all that goes on in that realm. The Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man is out there somewhere, please keep on keeping us safe. Thanks, and Root on!