Right then, figured I'd do something a bit mad. Set up UptimeKuma on a tiny HostHatch instance and pointed it at five budget providers I actually use or have used. Same monitoring node, same checks (HTTP every 60s, ICMP every 30s), 90-day window ending yesterday.
The lads:
1. Hostinger (us) - 99.97% - proper solid, though I'm biased
2. Vultr - 99.94% - one blip during their Tokyo routing mess
3. Leaseweb - 99.71% - three outages, total 3.8 hours
4. Time4VPS - 99.68% - frequent micro-outages, 2-5 min
5. CloudCone - 98.42% - the proper disaster. 22.7 hours total downtime. Scheduled maintenance with no notice, then an unscheduled storage migration that went sideways.
Dashboard screenshot:
Host | 30d | 60d | 90d | Total Down
Hostinger | 100% | 99.95%| 99.97%| 38m
Vultr | 99.98%| 99.91%| 99.94%| 78m
Leaseweb | 99.82%| 99.74%| 99.71%| 3h48m
Time4VPS | 99.72%| 99.70%| 99.68%| 4h12m
CloudCone | 98.11%| 98.38%| 98.42%| 22h42mCheers lads, interested to see if anyone from these hosts wants to comment. I know some of you lurk.