I have looked quite a lot at Vultr but I have not used them. There offering seems competitive and their network was fast when testing all the cloud providers.
Logflare is my pick either hosted or self hosted for logging using google bigquery, very economical.
Other than that I use fly for some things and getting projects up and running in non production quickly. I also host my own gitea on fly.io using sqlite backend rather than using Gitlab or GitHub. It’s very fast.
If you can qualify for the AWS startup $100k credit I wouldn’t ignore AWS.
My biggest challenge for security compliance is that only the major clouds like AWS, Azure or Google meet the requirements. So ultimately for anything of value it has to be those three.
