OVH is hard to beat when it comes to raw performance/$. Hardware and network has been quite reliable for me (using SoYouStart and OVH), and their DDoS filter is

OVH is hard to beat when it comes to raw performance/$. Hardware and network has been quite reliable for me (using SoYouStart and OVH), and their DDoS filter is excellent. I'm not really familiar with their cloud/VPS offering. That being said, they only have one data center in NA at the moment, and they recently suffered a rather nasty network outage in that data center. Would definitely look into them if your target market is primarily EU, but if you're mostly NA-based, YMMV.