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lol.. Mostly a bunch of shitty hosts no one outside of adult would have ever even heard of. I wouldn't even host a one page html site for my grandma on pretty much anything referenced in this thread. I think linode is the only one mentioned that is a decent host out in the real world. If GFY is any sort of representation of this industry... Jesus
For turn and burn hosting we utilize Media Temple for a lot of the sites. Good support, uptime, very well known and reputable in the real world. If you want a box that has some sort of control panel to manage it then they have great products in that realm.
For any client/site who needs their own dedicated hosting we will almost always go to RackSpace. I'm not sure there is a better or more trusted host out there than RackSpace. $2-$3k for a good server admin to setup and configure the box with what it will need and it'll be good for life from then on.
Then for mobile apps, web apps, file hosting, and CDNs - we usually go to Amazon Web Services. They're very well structured for fast, scaling, and reliable web / file requests. I loathe their admin panel though, as it is so abstracted - but hopefully one day they'll get it fixed up a bit.
So, the best - Media Temple, RackSpace, and AWS (depending on what the needs of the application are).
P.S. We also extensively use Acquia - but that is for Drupal specific sites and the costs are $30-$50k/year for enterprise services. I'm sure their lower end (non-enterprise) services are good as well but I personally have not used those so I cannot say. But alas, since Acquia is specifically a Drupal hosting platform so it is irrelevant to anyone not on that application.
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