> my first go-to is something like DigitalOcean or Amazon LightSail I look at compute instance providers by how they charge and for what project. Sometimes I

> my first go-to is something like DigitalOcean or Amazon LightSail I look at compute instance providers by how they charge and for what project. Sometimes I need more RAM, sometimes I need a faster CPU, sometimes I need more storage space accessed as a normal filesystem. Sometimes I need all of the above. So it might be DigitalOcean, it might be Linode, it might be some fly-by-night bare metal provider.