Life is rarely perfect. You already know while Shangri La is a great idea, it just doesnt exist. You learn to make do with living in the next best option, San Francisco. The spring of water gushing up to eternal life, not to be found. Will Diet Coke do?
If you are shopping for a web hosting company and seek perfection, you may have to lower your standards a bit and compromise to pretty good hosting. In such matters, as always, the issues boil down to this matrix:
1> Price
2> Quality/Speed
3> Service/Support
You can have at most two out of three. Of course, if you are not careful, even one out three may not happen. If you are richer than Croesus(or are Amazon.com), you can safely discount the Price factor and focus on Quality and Service. Chances are that you are trying to have to make some difficult decisions, based on your affordability, the kind of visitors you are likely to have, and the complexity of your website.
The web hosting companies, despite what they may tell you have similar costs. The servers, routers, and bandwidth cost essentially the same. While some may have savings on hardware and infrastructure due to economies of scale,...