Comment by smcleod

I have servers on Vultr, AWS, Azure, physical hardware in data centres and a few others. The physical servers are by far the fastest obviously, but when looking at the VPS / 'cloud' services Vultr is by _far_ the fastest and most reliable servers out of the lot, a close second would be Sitehost (AU/NZ Only). On the other end of the scale, the least reliable services we've experienced is easily those hosted on Azure where constant network issues, unreliable performance and random unexplained outages are frequent. Rackspace used to be good, going back say 2 or so years ago, then it felt like they were struggling although their technology far exceeded that of AWS - Amazon's marketing and targeting of management level sales seemed to outweigh and caused them to buckle.