[distortionfield]

YMMV, but this doesn’t pass the smell test for me. modest sized projects will freeze a $5 droplet during an install and build for me. I’ve tried across multiple providers. DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr. Tried all of them, and a $5 droplet can’t handle anything but a static site IMO. I don’t disagree a startup can go far on a small droplet but inflation has made $5 droplets too slow to be useful IME.

[axelthegerman]

You should give hetzner a try. Definitely much better value (on paper at least) and so far been working flawlessly for me.

Would appreciate some more voices on noisy neighbors at hetzner though as that's always the bigger problem of VPS than the promises they make

[ahofmann]

A $5 instance runs almost any php stack just fine. Even if they have a build process.

[qeternity]

What do you mean? There are no specifics here.