I'm surprised that smaller companies have not moved away from static pricing yet. We need to introduce a common way of comparing these say: GHz CPU-core day, MB RAM day, MB SSD WRITE, GB SSD READ / NET? Like this works now you're always comparing apples and oranges and maybe that is the way Amazon and Google (both on KVM now!) wants it? Few small operators in Dallas, Kansas and Nuremberg are well placed for latency s…
One gotcha is that if you come from the EU you need to register via ionos.eu and there is a registration fee of 10€ for each instance!
Also looking at VPS in china now, Shanghai is pretty well placed in the Asia region: Edit: VPS is crazy expensive in China (10x-30x more expensive than IONOS and that is without data which also is 20x more expensive!), I suggest using AWS as backup to GCE over there, probably want to stay outside of the firewall in Asia if you use port 80, atleast if your other Asian customers are more important than your China customers to begin with.
Something is off with the prices globally right now, the US is like on a permanent firesale when it comes to non essential goods, but to live there is impossible!?