You think cloud is good wait till you use the dedicated servers :). I was sold on Hetzner after running into their robot marketplace (on HN I think) years ago. Fantastic provider if you can live with a little bit of latency depending on where you are.

With what Hetzner prices at I'm always on the look out for a US competitor but there doesn't seem to be one yet -- best prices consistently come from OVH most of the time or LeaseWeb.