I use hostgator for my business and it's ok. I bought a 5 year plan so it was quite expensive but I don't know what their month to month plans cost.<p>If you are looking for fast, cheap hosting you should look at the free tiers of Azure, AWS, etc. Depending on how much traffic you get you should be able to host for free for at least a small period of time.
I think that it really depends on what you're going to be doing. database backend? Some small VPS plans might not work. Lots of traffic? same issue.<p>What are you looking at doing?