[LinuxBender]

My personal preference rather than picking X over Y VPS provider is to spread my nodes out across several of them. This would especially be the case if I were running a revenue generating business. Providers have unplanned outages. Support teams of an individual provider can get overwhelmed and take lazy actions like those in this tweet.

By having applications and data distributed over multiple providers automation can change DNS when a provider is having issues even if said issues are self inflicted such as a lazy over-reaction to an abuse report. It may not be feasible for a company to have all their data replicated on all providers. This is probably OK. N+1 for hard to replicate data may be sufficient to have a degraded service rather than a full site down critical outage.

Another benefit to having multiple providers is letting them know the better they treat you, the more significant weight your automation will give to spinning up nodes there. Make them compete for your money.