Hey all, I hope I'm on topic, I host a bunch of self hosted services at home, however with the way things are going in the UK I'm looking to get a VPS set up, initially to use as a proxy and wireguard pop, probably move more stuff to avoid censorship later on (use case is a little fuzzy just yet).
So, primary question is - any suggestions for good VPS providers that aren't the big 3 tech bros, in Western Europe, preferably France, Netherlands Belgium or Spain ?
Secondary question, my ISP throttled all VPN traffic the other week, we have 3 different VPN providers (2 mainstream 1 small player) across about a dozen devices they were all throttled to 250K. If you turned VPN off or split tunneled it went back to 100mb plus (I have a 1Gb connection).
When I asked on reddit for advice the reddit bots immediately jumped in with "oh it's just your VPN provider" however if I dropped phones off the wifi and connected to mobile telephony the VPN'd connections were fine - similar speed to split tunnel less some overhead. Lasted for 12 hours and then went back to normal. I assume I was being sin-binned for too much sailing of the seven seas.
Any idea what settings I can tweak to make it harder for them to throttle me ? I tried changing the Mullvad one to use port 443 but it didn't affect the throttling - maybe they'd already put the throttle on for anything encrypted by that point ?
Edit to fix poor grammar
Edit 2 - thank you all so much for the rapid replies, I'm going with OVHCloud as the cheapest option at my desired spec, with Ionos as the fallback if I have any issues with it.
The list you guys gave was brilliant though, so many options. Really appreciated
I haven't investigated it much but AdGuard's VPN masquerades as https traffic and might work for you. They recently open sourced it too:
https://github.com/TrustTunnel/TrustTunnel