*****not in any specific order**
First one that I'd really like to mention is everyone's favorite Ramnode. I have one SSD cached and one pure SSD vps from them. I like the blazing fast I/O of their SSD vps. The speed of SSD cached vps are also top notch. And the price point is almost unbeatable for the service that I get - excellent support!
$ramnode ssd: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 V2 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3399.959 MHz
Total amount of ram : 128 MB
Total amount of swap : 128 MB
System uptime : 12 days, 12:24,
Download speed from CacheFly: 103MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 19.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 55.5MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.47MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 11.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 67.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 48.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 42.5MB/s
I/O speed : 1.0 GB/s
And
$ramnode ssd cached: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2300.022 MHz
Total amount of ram : 128 MB
Total amount of swap : 128 MB
System uptime : 7 days, 18:00,
Download speed from CacheFly: 69.9MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 15.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 13.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 6.34MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.22MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 10.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 18.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 12.0MB/s
I/O speed : 334 MB/s
Second one, I got this from an LEB offer - Bandwagonhost. The price was $9.99/yr for a 512 MB vps with 512MB vSwap and the machine was simply superb! The I/O was very good for something at this pricepoint, as well as the network. Support is also pretty decent.
$bandwagonhost: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 1750.500 MHz
Total amount of ram : 512 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime : 4 days, 1:03,
Download speed from CacheFly: 55.8MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 39.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 29.5MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.35MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 12.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.95MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 17.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 15.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 75.3MB/s
I/O speed : 250 MB/s
Third one, Serverian's VPSDime - the 6GB OVZ vps. I purchased it for a quarter mainly for testing purpose and run one of my symfony based project and I must say that I am happy with it. Initially it had no vSwap space, but Octay immediately enabled after opening a support ticket. The machine, for some reason, consumes higher ram considering a similarly configured Ramnode machine - but the performance, i/o is overall very good.
$vpsdime: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2000.035 MHz
Total amount of ram : 6144 MB
Total amount of swap : 1024 MB
System uptime : 3 days, 11:14,
Download speed from CacheFly: 70.5MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 36.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 78.8MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 9.96MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 11.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 29.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 36.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 31.0MB/s
I/O speed : 339 MB/s
Fourth - not entirely an LEB offer, was the $88/yr offer (4GB Ram, 4GB vSwap, 150GB HDD, 4TB b/w and 4 ipv4) from ServerMania. I purchased it for a few of my personal projects. I should say that I am not very happy with the i/o (something like 80-120 MB/s but the support is amazing, just amazing with a guaranteed 15 minutes reply which is not a canned one :) I love that. Overall the machine is decent.
$servermania: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 1700.000 MHz
Total amount of ram : 4096 MB
Total amount of swap : 4096 MB
System uptime : 5:09,
Download speed from CacheFly: 70.4MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 30.3MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 21.2MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.48MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 12.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 5.02MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 17.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 17.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 72.1MB/s
I/O speed : 116 MB/s
Fifth, I purchased this SSD KVM from ToggleBox and I was absolutely happy with the machine. Great performance, excellent I/O and I loved their OnApp based control panel. They also has a good Affiliate program which returned me $50 after three months. I purchased this VPS for $10 (and got $100 promotional credit during that time). The only reason I didn't renew this VPS is I really don't have a use of this excellent machine at this moment for $10/mo. But I recommend it - very very good!
Sixth, is the one I have from WeLoveServers (WLS) during their 1yr promotional offer for 1GB OVZ vps with 1.25 GB vSwap for $19/yr. I liked their support. Usually replied in a shorter timespan. But the disk i/o is slower compared to others. They had a few hiccups in last month (which they mentioned happened due to a DDoS attack and one abuser in the node). As they have been decent so far, I understood that shit can happen. So I am overall happy with them.
$weloveservers: wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 3500.254 MHz
Total amount of ram : 1024 MB
Total amount of swap : 1280 MB
System uptime : 4:52,
Download speed from CacheFly: 12.8MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 25.6MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 27.5MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 7.49MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 12.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.52MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 20.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 14.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 80.5MB/s
I/O speed : 59.7 MB/s
I have used one DigitalOcean VPS with free credit, but the only feature I liked is their "Snapshot" of the servers and then deploying another VPS from that snapshot. Other than that - I really didnt like these machines. Seems very much oversold (at least the CPU)