Asklemmy

I have been using Hetzner for a while for my personal projects https://www.hetzner.com/cloud They have reasonable prices and I had no complains on them

Linode and Vultr are both cloud providers outside the big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) that are a fair bit less expensive and have a range of instance types you can spin up, plus custom block storage services - they have a few regions to pick from so you can often get one with a low ping to you.

If you want cheaper than that, and are okay with small providers who might not always be as reliable, try something like Lowendbox and check the listings there.

I'm in Europe. Been using Vultr, it's good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that's actually in my country.

I probably can't help you since I assume you are not from the same country as me. I would recommend that you use a more or less local service, but in order for us to give good recommendations, you will probably have to tell us where you are located.

I’ve used Digital Ocean and AWS. Both are fine. DO is more price-effective than AWS for smaller instances. If I need another I am going to try Hetzner. Prices look considerably better for what you get, and lots of positive things being said about it.

In germany, netcup has a quite good price/performance ratio

Oci free tier?

I mostly use Linode. Probably not the very cheapest, but they've never failed me.

https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

I use https://1984.hosting/, they're pretty good and reasonably priced (you could find cheaper if you looked around, but I just like their policies better)

Hetzner all the way. Using them for few years and zero problems. Before that was using scaleway they had some problems, VPS was down for a week.

I host some personal stuff on a DigitalOcean for about a decade now and am quite satisfied. Their tooling is lovely, their reliability is excellent, and their prices are "ok." (Their additional block storage in particular tends a little expensive.)

Always click around for specials, you can find smaller providers that will be super cheap but have maybe not as great tooling or reliability, several of the medium sized ones like DO, Linode (now part of Akamai), and Vultr usually have a "first month or two/first couple hundred dollars of use free" type new user promotion (Hetzner goes on this size/sophistication class but doesn't usually run that kind of promo. They also trend a little cheaper).

IMO plumbing the big cloud infra systems like AWS for small projects is usually only worthwhile if you're either already super in to their tooling, or doing it for practice. Exceptions for certian known intermittent or bursty workloads because the flow for cheap cold storage and/or temporarily scaling up is better on those than the VPS style setups.

I'm currently experimenting with signaltransmitter. Their website could use some polishing and there are not that many OSes to choose from, but the pricing is better than DO.

It's been a hot minute since I've used it, but Vultr had always been good when I used it in the past. I really like that they provided private networking for instances in the same datacenter, a feature which DigitalOcean did not provide.

Their pricing isn't the best but it's not awful, and it was pretty reliable for the couple of web servers I hosted with it.

I've been using netcup for years

I haven't seen better prices elsewhere, and I have no concerns regarding quality - settings, descriptions, or functionality

IONOS

I'm using the free tier of oracle for a Minecraft server and for something free it's really powerful (4 ocpus and 16Gb ram) although I think it might get revoked if the VPs is not used enough and I haven't touched other things than ssh and serving minecraft

I've been enjoying CyberGhost. It's cheap (I paid a reasonable fee for 3 years) and you can use it on 7 devices.