The price is competitive but I've found another important factor when VPN shopping for VMS's is if that data center tends to be abused by scraping projects.
Craigslist for instance is very slow when accessing via a VPN on Digital Ocean but quick when accessed via one hosted on Rackspace.
Google Scholar may send you through captcha hell for 10 rounds or so every few minutes if you're hoping on from a fishy ip.
The only time I had trouble with sites protected by Cloudflare was when viewing through Tor or AWS.
