US shels out the big bucks to upgrade customers internet speeds, in return data centers speed up as well and provide faster more reliable connections. also loving close to your host will give YOU best results, . things to keep in mind.

Always the Best will be the one who had more experience in a short span of time. Data Centers being opened in India, China and some of the developing countries still needs more experience in terms of security, support and updated servers. Several problems have been faced up and updations have been done with the Data Centers in the US long back ago.

So the US will be the leading and best Host ever and there is no doubt in it.

US based hosts seem to be more reliable... as we tested so many locations I don't even remember how many there actually were, I can say the most unreliable is in Canada. We tried over 10 Canadian hosts so far. At the best, it was failing too often when the worst was never getting back the money and server was more down than up. I would also point out Singapore as one of the best as we never had any issues with any of them. UK based are also worth mentioning.

Our preferences would be: US for Americas, UK for Europe and Singapore for Asia.

I don't think one can make valid general judgements as in "x country has the best/worst hosting". There are good hosts and bad hosts, in every country.

How would you call it when within 11 hosting companies not even one met a simple requirement for 99,8% uptime... all companies had at least couple hours downtime every month (some had 5-7 weekly).

Ok, you would call it bad luck I call it tendency. There is deffinitely some very good Canadian hosts but the price is twice of what it costs in the US.

Even though the cost for support will be lesser in asian countries, all these small hosting co.s may not be professionally managed. To be on safer side, I also prefer US based co.s even though I am based in middle east!

The US has the best and cheapest bandwidth.