I'm looking for a VPS for a Laravel application and I'm currently deciding between DigitalOcean and hostpro.com.

The application uses MySQL, Redis and queue workers, and I'd like to stay around $20–30/month. I don't necessarily need a managed platform, since I'm comfortable administering Linux myself.

Hostpro.com looks interesting because their VPS plans provide KVM virtualization, NVMe storage and root access. For this kind of workload, would there be a significant reason to choose DigitalOcean instead?

I'd especially appreciate feedback from anyone who has actually used both.

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To me, main things which differentiate between top hosting companies and average service provider are :
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I think these hosts fit in all of these well.