Ask HN: Best Shared-Hosting Provider?

I love shared-hosting when it works as intended. I can upload my lightweight frontend, connect it to any backend I want, can use cPanel for extra features, it's cheap and has lots of other benefits.

I have a great shared-hosting with servers in EU (using for 10+ years from serveriai.lt), but can't find a good solution with a global reach (specifically for the US).

So far I tried Namecheap and Bluehost, and had very bad experiences:

- Namecheap offers low price and a set of great features, but their speed is terrible (even the basic static html sites with no js often freeze for ~15 secs, then continue loading), also their e-mail is very slow. I would gladly pay double, if they could improve on their performance. It seems that their servers are overutilized, and probably suffer from malicious users.

- Bluehost is faster, loading is not freezing and email is fast too, but they target their whole service to Wordpress users. They created a specific interface that is on top of the default cPanel, and not only limits its default functionality, but creates a different UI that lures you into buying their products designed for WP only, and recently - it became inaccessible because of the bugs in their new survey and A/B testing implementation. The chat support team creates a friendly and welcoming atmosphere, but actually is very slow (makes you wait long times), but then requires to react super quickly (or disconnects), also the support team is at beginner's level.

I'm now thinking about trying this: https://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/fatcow.bml - any feedback about it?

Any other suggestions for a speedy, stable shared-hosting, with standard unlimited features and a global reach?

All the "Top 10" review articles on google recommend the same bluehost, namecheap, hostgator and other big names (probably because of affiliates). Maybe it is better to look for a smaller company, with shared-hosting as their core service/specialization.