I use a small Canadian-based host called Crocweb but that's mostly to keep our data on home soil (with a couple exceptions, my members are Canadian residents). They are okay for shared hosting but only recently got their VPS offering up after having it as Coming Soon for years so not sure I would be ready to use them for VPS if I was going that route. Also, can be a bit laggy with updates (I had to bug to get MariaDB onto a supporting build).