Digital ocean and AWS, they may have prices starting around 9$ however that's without creature comforts. While this may be acceptable for many personally I can't stand life without nice dns tools , easy port / host name mapping after all, really what are we paying for a blank machine?
Plesk, C-pannel docker DNS management, firewall tools if I pay extra I expect extra.. right? VPS hosting is widely available, very affordable and often somewhat easy to use too. Small budgets can have big features! Granted with many solutions you get what you pay for. However Lets not forget smaller companies will respond to help requests, often more tolerable and guiding. In recent experiments digital ocean and AWS are less likely to provide grass routes support.
Ionos can get folks going with options as low as 5$ a month as can HostGator and many more! This site is actually a Virtual Private Server. Docker? sure, no problem, Any way yep that too.. A bare Linux box with Plesk, some updates and off we go.. Droplets yeah kinda.. docker machine, possibly but Ansible, Docker, remote features I don't have to manage.. like proxy stet-ups at a click..
Wonder what this is all running on , Plesk , ansible , drupal and ingenuity ... Monitoring, sure as long as I have the ram and cpu for it..