I have mainly used Azure cloud for many of the smaller applications I run and been quite satisfied with it.My applications are on .net and I am quite familiar with Microsoft stack and was previously working with Microsoft :).I am currently in the process of building my new app in .net core+postgres and am open to Google cloud platform or AWS or any other cloud provider if it is offers better value for money stability and support.I am not really worried about the features provided by each of these providers as I always try to build things cloud agnostic and try to not use any provider specific features.I am only interested in the part where value for money for small/medium(e.g 10 K users,100 K pageviews) web apps is good,stability and very good customer support. Has anyone here used Google's or AWS or switched providers and got any experience/suggestions to share?
There are plenty of choices... in addition to the ones mentioned below, you might want to just rent a low-end dedicated server, where the hardware is guaranteed to be repaired if defective (make good offsite backups). Performance will be higher in most cases (dedicated CPU and high RAM).<p>e.g. <a href="https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wholesaleinternet.net/dedicated/</a> (blue order buttons are in stock)<p>Intel i3 chip with 8GB RAM and 500GB disk - $20/month .
I use+like vultr: it's like a better digital ocean. I can often fit more than one service onto a single $5 node.<p>(referral link: <a href="http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6993536-3B" rel="nofollow">http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6993536-3B</a>, should give you $20 of credit)
Cloud pricing is relatively similar. If you are not bound to any cloud it means you are not really using anything specific. You could then check Amazon lightsail or Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, etc.
We started with DO as a way to prototype quickly and ended up running a large scale telecom service on it. Doesn't get you much "in the box", but you have no lock-in either; works well enough and it's nice to use.
I've had good luck over the years with Server Axis.
For much cheaper, Scaleway has some innovative "bare metal"
offerings. 3 euros/month, it'll even fit Apache and
Wordpress. Some of my heavier PHP lifting had to move
something with a little more horsepower, though.