I've found Equinix [1] cheap, and really good. It's 100% bare metal. I've never had a problem with it. And the DC servers (at least) are often equipped with Mel

I've found Equinix [1] cheap, and really good. It's 100% bare metal. I've never had a problem with it. And the DC servers (at least) are often equipped with Mellanox Connect5 NICs great if you're into low level systems programming. There's on-demand, reserved, and spot server options. I typically spend $0.75/hr for the smallest instance to about $1/hr for a medium instance. They have private LANs, some flexibility with floating IP addresses. It supports IPV6. Disk and RAM is more than what I've ever needed. You get a root login over ssh. Possible negatives depending on your needs: - no AMAZON AMI: I don't think you can boot your custom O/S. While they have a large choice of OS, it's nowhere close to what AWS provides - Wider cloud offerings S3, lamba, DBs etc. are not available. You have to setup all that stuff yourself. https://console.equinix.com https://console.equinix.com