Check out NephoScale. I'm a happy customer for years. They have cloud and dedicated machines, so you're not forced to choose. Their machines have high performan

Check out NephoScale. I'm a happy customer for years. They have cloud and dedicated machines, so you're not forced to choose. Their machines have high performance hardware, which saves you enormous amounts of time not having to deal with unreliable networks, weak virtualized CPUs, low IOPS disks...