I loved Linode for their support. When I had issues, they were always good at responding to me and getting things resolved. AWS and GCP do have support, but yo

I loved Linode for their support. When I had issues, they were always good at responding to me and getting things resolved. AWS and GCP do have support, but you have to pay extra for it (sadly). The other nice thing about Linode was the free upgrades. When they did fleet-wide updates to CPU/Ram/Disk, you could go into their UI, click a button and be migrated fairly quickly/easily. I also agree that GCP and AWS are a lot more complicated, as they are vendor-specific ways of solving certain problems, which can be solved normally with Nginx and some configs (which is portable across any VPS/dedicated-host provider).