Digital Ocean vs Linode?

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

The Discourse guide to install in the cloud specifies system requirements at the top.

There are many topics comparing Digital Ocean, Linode and other hosting solutions, e.g.:

Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di…

Linode now has a $5/mo option

Jul 2017 comparison Linode vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Lightsail