Going with the discussion here, criteria was ease of use and price to performance.
I pay over $200/month to colocate my servers in a datacenter because I want a level of performance that others may not. Hence, this question in itself is very dynamic and may have answers depending on perspective of the very individual.
I hear people praising vultr but their servers are not really better than DO when it comes to performance but they kinda price themselves in a way that they look cheaper than DO so they get some customers from there.
If I had to get a managed discourse hosting I’d much rather spend on a package either from Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) or from CDCK directly because simply said they do it best .