While AWS and DO are a great choice for hosting, it is not recommended for everyone. This is because you need to have Linux skills if you want to work on these infrastructures. Otherwise, you can use PHP web hosting providers, like Cloudways (https://www.cloudways.com/en/php-cloud-hosting.php ), that provides you a platform to host your app on these infrastructures. Have you tried this platform. I would recommend it because of the support and ease it offers.