Looks like I'm going to be scouring LowEndTalk for a while.
Note: I've seen and paid good and bad providers, and I've been burned more than once. So be careful who you trust.
I'm quite happy with Racknerd too:
up 741 days, 19:49
I can second that statement about Racknerd, running a kvm vps there since ~3yrs and no single problem so far.
But I concede that I am a few
inches days short in the uptime-dick-swinging-contest (damn them friggin kernel update reboots..):

up 593 days, 16:12
Though unfortunately Racknerd accepts some crypto but not Monero:
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