lbft

In theory, consistent performance (particularly CPU) since you aren't sharing a node.

In practice, you're stuck dealing with the sort of headaches that come with doing something unusual, like repos not having packages you want. Overall it seemed to work reasonably during the beta but I'm surprised they weren't more aggressive with pricing.

Hard to argue with the value if you are actually using the bandwidth, but otherwise not that interesting an offer from a practical perspective.

Scaleway is a brand of Online.net (in fact while it was in beta it was called Online Labs). They have DDoS protection on their network: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/ddos-arbor

For the best protection you need to pay more - in the case of Scaleway, their pricing page (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing) says it's available with the "premium" bandwidth option - but anecdotally I've heard even the basic protection is pretty good.

Anyone mad enough to sell VPSes to anonymous customers must love cleaning up after spammers.

I am all for automation - but this is the same problem as Google has: there is no human intelligence available for the rare cases where the automation does not work.