The given alternatives include Linode/DO; I would suggest Amazon Lightsail instead. Then you have a clear on-ramp to AWS if you should grow to need it, and the pricing is on par with Linode/DO. The only real differentiator is egress cost once you exceed your included monthly allotment.
That, and AWS has a massive scale that is useful even if you have a single server. When I was on Linode, they got DDoSed and the whole service was inaccessible, even though the DDoS wasn't targeted at my server. They didn't have enough capacity at their POPs to grunt through the DDoS. You can't do that to AWS.
That, and AWS has a massive scale that is useful even if you have a single server. When I was on Linode, they got DDoSed and the whole service was inaccessible, even though the DDoS wasn't targeted at my server. They didn't have enough capacity at their POPs to grunt through the DDoS. You can't do that to AWS.