$10 Showdown: Linode vs. Digital Ocean vs. Amazon Lightsail

I am sticking with Digital Ocean over Lightsail because I don't like potential financial liability. I like being able to not think about my vps for months and knowing there is a maximum amount I will be charged.

Why not vultr. Between these vultr is the only host that actually let's you install from your own media.

Personally, I would include support quality in this analysis, because you can always find cheaper VPS hosts.<p>One thing I also notice with DigitalOcean (may apply to the others) is that they proxy apt-get requests and cache them in their datacenter, so the network feels much faster than some cheaper hosts.

In reality you get very little for $10. If you need more than 8 instances it makes more sense to rent dedicated server and get something like Rancher

One more important thing, amazon does not support ipv6.