Other places I've tried for VPS (cheap) and/or dedicated server (expensive):
* ARP Networks -- excellent, especially for BSD. Extremely well-managed network (top-notch peering), support is quite good (24 hour response time), and the owner (Garry) is extremely friendly. On the downside, disk I/O is extremely slow
* cari.net -- good experience, though I only used them for a dedicated server (expensive). Overall I'm happier with Vultr though.
* ComfortVPS -- bad experience. From my notes circa 2014/03/02: dogshit slow, boot-up times ttook full minutes, kernel device probe took forever, while during certain times of the day things would perform decently; indicates oversubscribed hypervisors.
* Linode -- quite good (esp. for Linux), inexpensive, easy to use. Stay away from their Fremont site, however -- that's hosted entirely by Hurricane Electric, who has an extremely long track record of awful service (
my story -- and yes, the situation is still the same as of 2016).
* RootBSD -- I forget what my experience with them was like, sorry to say
* vr.org -- Not entirely sure about reliability/etc. -- I couldn't get their VNC console capability working no matter what I did, and their Support kept insisting it was because "I was using a PC and not a Mac" (yeah, uh, bye).
As for Vultr -- they're quite good, but I have had several issues with them (either networking-related or hypervisor-related). They tend to fix things quickly. The one big negative with them is that their support/admin staff doesn't seem to understand how to do maintenance of HVs correctly: the guests (VPSes) are powered off abruptly, rather than issued ACPI shutdowns (i.e. expect your filesystems to come up dirty after they do HV maintenance or have an HV outage -- strongly recommend using a checksumming filesystem because of this, but if you can't, bare minimum use something that's journalled (e.g. ext4, XFS, etc.) so that at least you don't have filesystem corruption). I've talked to the guy who manages their support or admin staff, and supposedly they've all been trained to not do that any more (he confirmed they were in fact abruptly shutting things off and would issue ACPI shutdowns going forward), but the last time they did HV maintenance my stuff came up with dirty filesystems. That said: their disk I/O is fast (them bragging about use of SSDs is certainly true), and CPU doesn't feel oversubscribed. They also offer disk snapshot capability, and you can restore a snapshot in another datacenter too (e.g. if you wanna move from one datacenter to another). You can also get them to use whatever ISO image you give them (I forget if it's an HTTP upload or a URL to an ISO) for installation, so you don't necessarily have to use the OSes they pre-stock.