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I am going to host my web app on digitalocean. Is digitalocean right choice?
What is your experience with hosting providers?
Who is the best for low budget?
Edit: If price is your biggest concern then maybe look at Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/#pricing) to get you started for less $.
I spend $3.33 (2.99€) and host a few apps. None big but they all run smooth as butter. It's amazing how much you can actually host on this little machines.
There are a bunch of aggregator sites that compare vps providers. Here are two of them. [1] [2] [3]
Disclaimer: These sites can be a bit spammy. Use NoScript / uBlock. Also, you really do get what you pay for, so as your business grows, you may wish to consider diversifying across providers.
[1] - https://lowendbox.com/
[2] - https://vpscomp.com/servers
[3] - https://www.serverhunter.com as mentioned by IronBacon, I totally forgot about this one.
As of my knowledge, the ping isn´t that bad in the US neither.
I've been very happy with DigitalOcean but be aware that $5 is not going to get you very much. If it's a small web app or static site then the $5/mo droplet will be fine but plan to be spending more like $15 or $20/mo very soon. Edit: If price is your biggest concern then maybe look at Vultr ( https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/#pricing ) to get you started for less $.
All of them have pretty competitive offerings, great support, and are just generally on top of things. You won't regret any of those hosts.
The problem with the hosts on lowendbox.com and the like is that they will very likely work, but they don't have the history for me to trust business critical tasks. Many are just resellers offering over-allocated machines.
If you have to have a VPS where you get a bare OS and need to install your custom web app, there are some great suggestions already in here. I personally use DigitalOcean because my company's budget is super small as well.
If you just need a business website, there are cheaper options than DigitalOcean or Vultr.
If you want super cheap, nothing will beat shared hosting. In most cases, you will have to write your coded in PHP and MySQL. You can get spaces really cheap hosting like 12 USD per year.
For any other framework, you have to use a VPS. Even in VPS there are two types - KVM based and LXC based. KVM based systems support docker but will be expensive. LXC based systems will be much cheaper but can run most frameworks.