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My overall experience with a few VPS providers I've used in last couple of months - with Benchmarks
*****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)
Comments
I have added the benchmarks now
Finally, I have one AWS EC2 server (EAST) as a part of their free tier signup bonus, a micro server. Not much of any use specially. I use it for some testing sometime. Here is the benchmark. Not very good, not at all
And here is the DigitalOcean regular one's benchmark (512 MB)
Is there something wrong with the uptime part of the benchmark script or is 12 days the longest uptime you've had for a VPS aside the EC2 instance?
Thanks @ironhide
@Xei as most of these are experimental machines, so I reboot them frequently. Nothing wrong