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Look at BuyVM, OVH (SoYouStart/Kimsufi), Netcup.eu. All very solid providers and I have servers/VMs with all of them.

..or even Oracle Cloud Always Free Tier (which gives you 2x 1G VMs)

I think that most of the VPS providers have similar prices, I personally use DigitalOcean as I really like their interface.

True, I have been comparing performance and long-term contract which I have research on shared hosts and VPS providers.

I like Linode personally.

No BSD options, but they've got a pretty good selection of Linux distros as ready made images.

I have Linode years ago and moved on when the pricing and performance weren't competitive as UpCloud.

Same, I have been using Linode for almost 10 years for small projects.