[ale] Replacing shared host?

[leamhall at gmail.com (Leam Hall)]

Hey all, I need to move into this century. After almost 20 years with 
the same shared host, the tech support that has been farmed out to keeps 
making the service useless.

My needs are pretty simple, a few web pages. In theory I'll grow to PHP 
7 and MySQL in the back end, but right now I need to write web pages and 
scp them up to the host. I have some time to move things over, thus time 
to learn something if necessary. I do not want to run a the server in my 
house.

Is it time to move to something like Digital Ocean droplets, or AWS? 
Long term it looks like DO costs more and you get less, but I just don't 
know yet.

Thoughts and recommendations?

Leam