A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.
The brilliant part about DigitalOcean is their transparency of pricing. A backup of the Droplet can be done once a week automatically for 20% of the cost of the Droplet. A $5 Droplet will cost $1 a month for backups.
It's worth noting that at times you do get what you pay for. For $5 a month on DigitalOcean, your RAM and CPU are shared resources. You shouldn't rely on those to be performant for production workloads. Move outside of the Basic tier and you pay a lot more (starting at 8x more) but get the dedicated resource to have performance available.
Going cheap and accepting shared resource (like every cheap, shared host I am aware of) is going to have a huge performance trade-off.
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The brilliant part about DigitalOcean is their transparency of pricing. A backup of the Droplet can be done once a week automatically for 20% of the cost of the Droplet. A $5 Droplet will cost $1 a month for backups.
It's worth noting that at times you do get what you pay for. For $5 a month on DigitalOcean, your RAM and CPU are shared resources. You shouldn't rely on those to be performant for production workloads. Move outside of the Basic tier and you pay a lot more (starting at 8x more) but get the dedicated resource to have performance available.
Going cheap and accepting shared resource (like every cheap, shared host I am aware of) is going to have a huge performance trade-off.