So I used to use DigitalOcean for around the same intro price point, but after a while I realized that I could pay $22/year for a t4g.nano ec2 instance instead of $72 for the cheap DigitalOcean VPS. I guess in the end, the $22/year was too good to be true and the DO/Linode pricing effectively bundles in the price of the IPv4 address.

Linode was too slow and had outages in my experience. Used them for years.

Replaced them with lightsail and don’t have any of those problems, plus I can pick FreeBSD.