[tluyben2]

Maybe they treat me better because I am a long term customer. That could be. I don’t think these providers are that budget really; OVH has a budget provider (kimsufi) but ovh isn’t one anymore, imho. Unless compared with cloud and ‘enterprise’ providers.

Anyway maybe it is because I am a long term customer of all of these; I do tend to have a talk upfront what I plan todo and tend to make sure I have a contact there. OVH is too big for that now (I had a contact until about 8 years ago in France), OVH is not.

If not aws or other overpriced (for dev/test stuff) cloud provider; what do you use as non-budget provider?

[Tijdreiziger]

Well I'm not 100% sure how it is these days, but IIRC OVH IPs used to have a bad reputation, because their cheap prices attracted spammers. On the other hand, my current e-mail provider uses Hetzner and I haven't had any problems getting my e-mails delivered, so who knows.

I currently host my stuff on Uberspace, if I needed a 'real' VM I would probably go with TransIP because I already have my domains there and they are local to my country. I'm just talking from a personal perspective though, I'm not hosting any business servers or anything like that.

Admittedly it's also very possible that the reason you hear more about issues with OVH and Hetzner is just because they have more customers.

[tluyben2]

I am indeed also overpaying for a VM and a few domains on TransIP (I am also from NL like you I guess) :) And I had massive issues with them in the past. I had less issues with Hetzner anyway. So also a matter of experience.