I've used Online (the company that also ownes scaleway, but their business line), Hetzner and OVH before.
Hetzner and OVH have much better peering than online (ofc still worse than GCP), especially noticeable when users are in Asia Pacific and you have only servers in the west.
Online is significantly cheaper, but well, the peering issue.
Generally I prefer Hetzner for compute-heavy workloads (especially their ML server offer with an i7-6700 and GTX1080 for 99€ is awesome) or networking, for most of the rest, I'd just go with Online.
Important for me is that I can just rent a handful servers, try out building something, fail, and try again, always knowing that it won't cost the world, and allowing me to experiment. If it fails, I can just try something else, if it works, I can just scale up. Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be enough to let me fail early and often.
Hetzner and OVH have much better peering than online (ofc still worse than GCP), especially noticeable when users are in Asia Pacific and you have only servers in the west.
Online is significantly cheaper, but well, the peering issue.
Generally I prefer Hetzner for compute-heavy workloads (especially their ML server offer with an i7-6700 and GTX1080 for 99€ is awesome) or networking, for most of the rest, I'd just go with Online.
Important for me is that I can just rent a handful servers, try out building something, fail, and try again, always knowing that it won't cost the world, and allowing me to experiment. If it fails, I can just try something else, if it works, I can just scale up. Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be enough to let me fail early and often.