Vultr seems to take longer than digital ocean to get to a prompt from creation. But if you're not rapidly spinning up dozens a day it may not matter.

I also feel like they don't communicate maintenance windows or outages as well as they should.

But I still use them because they have a Dallas location and DO doesn't.

I was at RAX back in the early cloud days. The console has a long and sordid history. I was under the impression they bought CloudKick just to get the team to build a better console. Somewhat surprised it's still bad; somewhat not.