I have a bunch of instances on OVH because they are quite a bit cheaper. However the OVH management/billing/admin UI is atrocious. It's slow, unintuitive, and several functions don't work properly. If I wasn't so cheap, I'd go back to using DO in a heartbeat.

The same reason execs always choose major players like IBM, HP, and Microsoft. Nobody gets fired when Digital Ocean goes down, because "hey, I chose one of the most well known cloud providers".

Because branding/marketing.

EDIT: Although I should add that my experience in using DO has made me a fan...so I guess the branding/marketing worked on me to get the initial relationship started; and, now their performance (e.g. uptime, security, etc.) has kept me there, as a happy fan. ;-)

> over other, cheaper and higher spec'ed, alternatives.

I can't answer you, but I'd like to know about the alternatives-, thanks!

- If they are different than Google Cloud, AWS...

What would you recommend instead?