[fatrachet]

Personally, I use an OVH/Kimsufi server. 10 Euro/mo for AtomD425 CPU, 4GB Ram and 2TB HDD, 100Mbit/s, 4 IPs.

I use it as backup and online storage, to host a few small shitty websites (behind cloudflare) and used to use it as a minecraft server.

While the CPU is a lot weaker than something like digitalocean, I generally need memory and storage a lot more.

[tombrossman]

Seconded! Happy Kimsufi customer here. I have a few DigitalOcean droplets for customer sites, but after checking the stats and almost never seeing the CPU(s) spike over 50% (if that much) I bought a Kimsufi with 1TB storage and 16GB (non-ECC) RAM and it way outperforms the DO droplets' response time for static assets. I now use it as a static file server for the DO Droplets, plus personal storage.

The network speeds are great and constant, DDOS protection included as standard, and I'm on Gigabit fiber plus close to France so couldn't be happier.

The non-ECC RAM could be a problem over time, but I keep multiple redundant backups and test them regularly, so the small chance of data corruption would only be a nuisance.

Also, the next level up as far as hardware quality is the 'So You Start' range, so look at that too. Depends on your budget and proximity to their French or Canadian data centres.

[kaishiro]

Woah. 1 TB in their second tier. This looks great for a file server. Thanks!