Hmm, I've never experienced that on any of my instances, apart from the Minecraft server that I run for my niece and her friends. It got overloaded once when a

Hmm, I've never experienced that on any of my instances, apart from the Minecraft server that I run for my niece and her friends. It got overloaded once when a bunch of players signed on at the same time, and I just bumped up to the next highest slot. That was my fault, since I was cheaping out trying to run it at the $5 tier; Minecraft is a memory hog even if you tweak the settings. Anecdotal, of course. I have had serious performance issues at Digital Ocean, which is one reason I moved away from them and to Vultr (the main reason being Vultr's support for uploading your own custom ISO; OpenBSD in the cloud is cool). One example of many: I ran a custom website on DO for a client for a couple of years, but it was constantly going down despite the logs showing no significant traffic spikes and no Apache or PHP errors. I moved it to a shared hosting plan with my reseller provider and it has been up 100% since, not counting planned downtime. All of that said, if I ever start experiencing the issues you're describing, I'll move on in a heartbeat. I don't do anything mission critical on Vultr, it's mostly for testbed stuff and that Minecraft server, nothing I can't move to another provider with ease.