Switching VPS for better value

I ended up getting a VPS from a bloke at Fiverr for $10/30-days (Fiverr fee not included). He's sub-letting me a 4-core, 4GB RAM, 40GB SSD machine running Win2012 R2. The servers are located in Miami, FL (hosted by Cloud South), which pings well to Equinix NY4 in NJ. Sounds pretty sweet right? Well, here's the catch...

The seller from Indonesia filled the order by sending me a Singapore IP instead - which didn't ping so well to NY4. When I raised the issue with him, he quietly and unapologetically switched to the one in Miami. Everyone makes mistakes right? I gave him the benefit of the doubt and carried on, setting it up to trade.

Six days later, it crashed. He explained that someone was attacking the server. He promptly provided a new IP (Miami-based this time).

30 days later, the subscription was set to renew, but it didn't. So I got kicked out again. Even after we got it sorted, the server has been plagued by reliability issues. I reckon I'm only getting about 97% uptime. The bloke should be entitled to 100% credit for the month as compensation, according to Cloud South's service level agreement. I've requested my fair share of said credit, but I'm not going to have my hopes up. Hopefully, I've become a bit less naïve.

I shall continue to look for alternatives.

I have found that it is much cheaper and more confidential to run vps on digitalocean ubuntu + windows server. 8GB VPS is 40$ per moth. 4GB is 20$.

Once I tried VPS from my broker (it was free because of my trading value), but I have noticed that administrator entered my vps and was there for more than 20 minutes. It is a little bit strange. So that's why I have decided to have my own. Also on digitalocean there are build in firewall. It is extremely good.

I tried amazon aws, but is cost about 100$ month for the same setup. Also I failed to understand how their firewall works. Their settings confused...

This is 2 huge EAs running on 8GB (40$) VPS.

Did you ever try the Metatrader VPS at $15/mo.?
Have been with CNS, but Beeks handling of service requests is turning me off...

Sure I tried. But I see no reason why I should use black box instead of my own VPS managed by myself. If you have any reason to do it that way please tell me. May be I'm missing something.