I'm a happy Linode user. And I'm a very small hoster. I'm renting a $10/month VPS for quite a few years now, and I've been very impressed with them.

A while back I made a stupid mistake while tired, and I was panicking and couldn't find the feature I needed in the account.

I called Linode at around 11PM CDT, and got a helpful friendly guy on the line who walked me through what I needed. I was amazed that I could get a human on the line in less than a minute after hours, when only paying $10/month.