[tuna]

Good call ! I think the value of lightsail is more of what you get along with it (S3, other products and a path to scale up) than the vps itself (which can be had by less than both aws and DO are charging on alternative providers). DO is hard to beat on iops but it has been years they are asked to release a loadbalancer or basic stuff you can horizontally scale your apps. Linode has that but their VMs seems to "age" faster than DO (in terms of losing performance after some time due to neighbours).