I recently discovered Vultr [1]. Slightly cheaper than DO with lots of location. I only had a couple instances running up for a bit while I benchmarked some code (I wasn't benchmarking them, so I didn't compare it to someone else). Was alright.
I run my own "everything" box at Hetzner [2] and I've used OVH (France, though they had a DC in Canada). OVH has gotten confusing, a lot of different brands (SoYouStart, OVH, Kimsufi and all types of stocking issues...so I'll let you google it if you really want). Both of these completely decimate pretty much anything else for the price.
Finally, there was a recent story about Atlantic.net offering a 0.99 SSD-backed VPS [3]
As others have pointed out, there is Docker which is great for this. There is also Packer[0] from the team that built Vagrant and other great tools. Packer allows you to build images for several different IaaS providers.
I use FreeBSD at TransIP but their virtualisation engine is not suitable for running Ruby applications[1]. Other than that, I didn't had any other issues. They are a bit expensive though (12 EUR/month for 1GB Ram 50 GB SSD).
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I recently discovered Vultr [1]. Slightly cheaper than DO with lots of location. I only had a couple instances running up for a bit while I benchmarked some code (I wasn't benchmarking them, so I didn't compare it to someone else). Was alright.
I run my own "everything" box at Hetzner [2] and I've used OVH (France, though they had a DC in Canada). OVH has gotten confusing, a lot of different brands (SoYouStart, OVH, Kimsufi and all types of stocking issues...so I'll let you google it if you really want). Both of these completely decimate pretty much anything else for the price.
Finally, there was a recent story about Atlantic.net offering a 0.99 SSD-backed VPS [3]
[1] https://www.vultr.com/
[2] http://www.hetzner.de/en/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8389477
Just wish there was one option where I could download my snapshots. Untrap my images!
As others have pointed out, there is Docker which is great for this. There is also Packer[0] from the team that built Vagrant and other great tools. Packer allows you to build images for several different IaaS providers.
0 - http://www.packer.io/
Isn't that a good use case for Docker?
Yes that's exactly what docker is about.
+1 for Vultr: They offer FreeBSD and CoreOS.
I use FreeBSD at TransIP but their virtualisation engine is not suitable for running Ruby applications[1]. Other than that, I didn't had any other issues. They are a bit expensive though (12 EUR/month for 1GB Ram 50 GB SSD).
[1] https://gist.github.com/atmosx/14efea27eb2c1e38af09