It's even worst , most of the cloud mining services out there turned out to be a scam after sometime so it's not really recommended to use them.
I wouldn't recommend ETHER as-well , probably Bitcoin is the best choice for you . In the last couple of days ETHER dropped with like 200 million $ in Marketcap (from 1billion to 800 million) as you can see here : https://coinmarketcap.com/ , So in my opinion the market manipulation is real.