I've been with various hosting providers, however as presiously mentioned linode are bang on the money for service and ive never had any issues with them in the

I've been with various hosting providers, however as presiously mentioned linode are bang on the money for service and ive never had any issues with them in the past 5 years (i have multiple nodes with them. However for development i host my own onsite vps's, with the use of xenserver and proxmox this gives the best environment to deploy any multitude of configurations. Lastly i have some external testing/staging servers (not always vps nodes) that i use, these are miles cheaper than linode and other providers but not always as great in terms of support. These are hosted with OVH under their budget brand kimsufi. They also have a brand called Sostart and OVH and those are better supported brands. I hope that helps you out!