I second using DigitalOcean. They are inexpensive and reliable. I use ubuntu on my droplets following this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutoria

I second using DigitalOcean. They are inexpensive and reliable. I use ubuntu on my droplets following this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-ser... I've created a simple ansible playbook that implement most of the steps in the guide. https://github.com/bjacobt/digitalocean-ubuntu-ansible-setup https://github.com/bjacobt/digitalocean-ubuntu-ansible-setup