A Small Orange is not an EIG company. Brent Oxley owned HostGator, and a stake of ASO. He sold HG to EIG. ASO was not part of that deal. Both ASO and HostNine are the same company, and neither are EIG owned.
I'm removing ASO from the list. The above was true, and ASO was not part of last year's HG deal. But apparently that has changed. Anything controlled by EIG is not to be trusted.
Most of
JaguarPC complaints were for their VPS, not other services. However many were unfounded. The price attracts too many novices. JPC also operates hundreds of servers, so for one or two to fail from time to time is honestly to be expected. JPC's biggest problem was having a bad datacenter layout, which aided overheating; this has since been changed. What would happen is some VPS racks would overheat, and the hard drive would fail. The complaints always came from people who didn't keep their own backups, and did not opt for backup services. JPC has a "best effort" backup policy (non-paid backup), which is more than what most hosts do. All that aside, I don't really see any complaints on their Facebook page. Most of those were at WHT, and Zach and Greg (the owner) responded to everything.
We've used JPC on and off the projects since 2002. We currently admin a system there for a client, and it works flawlessly. That VPS has been around since August 2011 without any problems. The worst thing that happened is the DC had a looped router back in April of 2012 which caused some network loss, and lasted 48 hours or so.
We had used ASO on and off since 2008, but no longer.
If I had to recommend one company, it would be
Stablehost. This very site is powered by a cluster of servers at
EuroVPS and Stablehost. We had then since 2008 or 2009, so something like 4-5 years now. (
EuroVPS for 7+ years!) Uptime has been near 100%, and the owners/techs are quite knowledgeable and helpful. I don't really need tech support, but it's nice to know they're there; I check in from time to time. They're a very newbie-friendly host, and even help one of my friends with his silly questions. He has an account with them, too.
Unlike fake "lists" online, we've actually used these hosts, and can help you find the right one.