I've been pretty happy with my OVH server, but agreed on support... had better luck with chatgpt and a lot of additional reading getting my CIDR block of addresses configured under ProxMox (which made me far less worried about ChatGPT taking my job any time soon).
In the end, was an interesting learing experience, that I hope to not have to repeat. Only went for a single server as I had several smaller VPSes on DigitalOcean and wanted to add a mail server in the mix, and couldn't reliably send via DO or Linode, so was easier to consolidate and run on a single/larger host for hobby projects.