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Sometimes it's not about the prices. Most of the time. Always, actually. Especially when it comes to web hosting.

Totally agree. These days I want great customer service and reliability. I can pay $20 for Google knowing Google will be around much longer and should come with a reasonable retiring/deprecation/shutdown policy. I chose DO for a similar reason. I know it will be around for a while and I have nothing to lose since I have access to my source code. I can migrate to another provider if I have to.

Also, DO is pretty fast at deploying and enabling new VM. I didn't know OVH until today. Sometimes advertising works well :/

Yep. I'm also a DO customer - very satisfied. You can't get that great customer support from Google (unless you pay more than 10k/month and you have your own tech account manager!) OVH is mainly known in Europe/french speaking countries.

> I can pay $20 for Google knowing Google will be around much longer

Not the best example IMO...

They cause more product genocides per year than all startups combined.

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