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OVH and Hetzner are both very solid for me for than a decade of using.
Days : 1095 Hours : 5Sheeesh! Good stuff
THX for the mention
We do the very best we can to maintain a perfect uptime and consistency across all of our services.
Well, my Racknerd / @dustinc Ireland VPS was rebooted (by them) within the past 24 hrs ...
My list of most reliable servers is
(in no particular order)
Racknerd @dustinc
Amsterdam1 : 00:59:07 up 1028 days, 18:06, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.04, 0.00
Amsterdam 2 : 00:10:49 up 563 days, 3:40, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.09
Ovh,Netcup,GreenCloud,Reliablesite, and Clouvider until they banned me for asking a refund and cancel of my vps, 6 days before renewal, after I saw they charged me 7 days before renewal. I should have read the fine print, sometimes they make an exception if you are 7 days before renewal. I got banned from any future vps's and they got an extra month of $$$ for an unused vps. Only small $'s.
As I rather care about location/DC/network uptime (still not using kernelcare or the like so my servers need a reboot frequently):
Leaseweb Amsterdam wins with Scaleway Amsterdam and Scaleway Paris close behind.
Newer had a problem with those two in all the years.
I rather care about the services I'm offering, five nines uptime is the worst. All build on many diverse small shoulders (e.g. LET providers) instead of using the big ones like Azure or AWS or Cloudflare:
By the way, thank you @HBAndrei for Hetrixtools, never had a glitch or downtime of Hetrixtools in the last five years. I love those experts who focus on one thing and do that one thing in a perfect way.
Gigahost @gigahost has been rock-solid and the performance is excellent.
Racknerd @dustinc provides excellent value, cheap and works. Great support.
GreencloudVPS has been nothing but excellent, it just works to the point that I have almost forgotten it exists.
Hosthatch @hosthatch has been awesome, good performance and good deals.
OVH, years of uninterrupted service in all locations.
Good uptime will come from any provider with proper infrastructure (power, etc), and who has monitoring for hardware issues. I've had one of my VMs from @BinaryLane migrated several times without me noticing, keeping multi-year uninterrupted uptime.
Those are impressive numbers!
Meanwhile one rather large host in my country posts several planned maintenances per year for various services including email. One would think they have some failover servers to keep the service uninterrupted but no.
Racknerd Amsterdam is by far and away my most reliable, even beating the big clouds. Probably just because it’s been forgotten about though (plus good DC and hardware)
My opinion towards Clouvider has been shifting more and more negative as I hear similar negative experiences others had.
With @dan_onlyservers in town with his unlimited 10gbit server, my recommendation will shift to be for them. I just hope they start providing VPS too.
I was stunned by their customer service, I didn't see the email about the charge till 6 days before the end of the term, then when I asked customer service they said oh well if it was yesterday (7 days before) we might have been able to refund and cancel. But not now, it was a very cold repsonse, never had such a response from customer service before, most hosts are usually forthcoming and helpful. I didn't dispute the charge but found out later I was banned from purchasing any more services by "the management". All I can do now is let people know about my experience @Clouvider
Cancelling days/weeks in advance is typical from big hosters. You raising a stink about it will only get you banned from other big hosters as well, especially if the smell is all about $10.
A week or few days is fine for most US hosting. Foreign hosters like netcups etc are longer. I have two netcup vps and I am fine with that contract. Anyway it's only $10 and I didn't do a dispute and get me on that bad list. It's no big deal I was just turned off by the cold shoulder customer service and "the management"
This has been my experience.