I agree with stay away from AWS, but centurylink does have lower prices for compute servers comparatively and google cloud has a better pricing model for comput

I agree with stay away from AWS, but centurylink does have lower prices for compute servers comparatively and google cloud has a better pricing model for compute. I'm about to test this out empirically but based on my initial research this is what I think. But I agree with 'bare metal is your friend'.