I've been a customer of Big Cloud and Small Cloud (DO, Linode).

Co-location or a VPS seems like a best choice in all cases except when you're an enterprise.

AWS because I know how it breaks, Google Cloud if you’re starting from scratch due to great DX, Oracle Cloud if you trust them to not go all Oracle with it someday since it’s solid tech, Azure if you spent Thanksgiving dinner eating crayons at the kids’ table, IBM “Cloud” if you hate your company and yourself.

1. Best DX

2. faster, cheaper, most secure

3. Google is a thought leader in the cloud space (among many)

That being said, I also like Cloudflare a lot

I like GCP because they overcomplicate everything. (That api is not available because 1. You have to activate it 2. Your permissions don’t allow it 3. Your quota is exceeded 4. It is deprecated 5. It is in alpha 6. All of the above)

I like azure because it’s just like AWS but with a bunch of unwanted windows support that will actively make everything worse.

Hetzner was cool, but they do some insane routing things.

OVH seems like they came to the party a decade late even though they were here day one.

That’s all I know.

BenderCloud: just a bunch of VPS and physical server providers

I like my cloud best because I can shift financial resources to the provider behaving the best and dial down those that are misbehaving. I do not utilize any vendor-specific services for my hobby junk. It also means if a vendor tries to passive-aggressively cancel me I can just flip DNS and stop rewarding them with money.

Serious uncomplicated work shit - AWS

Serious complicated work shit - GCP

Because they pay for my dinner dates - Azure