Who are your favorite higher-end providers?

I haven't has any problems either and now that I'm in a new and fast node, the only difference is the $20 vs $15 from Ramnode with a coupon

Regarding performance, these new nodes are very fast. I haven't generate a serverbear report in this node because it's production server.

I'm in the metered beta now and created 3 nodes, but all of them were build in older nodes, so no luck for now.

I'll try later to create a new node to see if I can compare them.

Linode and KnownHost were always good to me, have not used either of them in a few years though.

I have also managed a few cloud servers for a few different customers at AWS and RackSpace, RackSpace has been awesome, in over 3 to 4 years I can't say I have ever needed to contact support with either them or AWS, they just go and go and go... Can't say I ever really had any problems at Linode and KnownHost either.