I would avoid DO and similar McDonald's-type cloud providers for anything production. Commercial or private. AWS might make it difficult to figure out the cost

I would avoid DO and similar McDonald's-type cloud providers for anything production. Commercial or private. AWS might make it difficult to figure out the cost (most common complaint) but the services are professional grade and their support is as well. DO on the other hand provided me an instance with an IP that was on a public blacklist and banned my account within 5min of spawning an instance with the explanation that "it was compromised and hacking" failing to accept that they provided me with the OS image and the public IP. Took me two months of arguing to get the account unblocked and balance withdrawn. Lesson learned; you get what you pay for. Back to AWS for me.