Omg, I fucking love Digital Ocean ❤️
Hands down the best hosting provider for devs and fedi admins
But last time I checked, DO only offered all kinds of pay-per-use fancy cloud stuff, and the closest thing they had to actual servers were VDSes that were way too expensive for their specs.
@dansup I'll second this.
I've been running multiple separate servers on DO for years and never had an issue (Mastodon (2 servers), Peertube, WordPress, WireGuard VPN, mail server, Phanpy, Bluesky PDS, and a general web server) with never a problem. I also use 2 DO Managed Postgres DBs and a DO Managed MySQL DB. Everything runs fast. Their support is excellent. They have many excellent tutorials.
Once they contacted me because I forgot to close a port in the firewall a few hours after I forgot to close it, so they do security scanning as well.
Scaling to a larger server, to get more disk space, or a larger DB is just a click.
Automated backups.
I think they are worth the small extra cost.
