DigitalOcean has a great offering -- a minimal, intuitive and easy UI and competitive prices. But few know Hetzner, which has not only a cheaper base tier and the same minimal and intuitive UI, but also more powerful servers for the same price. The only real disadvantage: They only offer servers based in Germany and Finland.

A comparison of their base tiers

Metric	Hetzner	DigitalOcean
CPU Cores	1	1
RAM	2GB	1GB
Disk Space	20GB	25GB
Bandwith	20TB	1TB
Company Location (GDPR and data privacy)	EU	US
Available Server locations	Europe	Around the world
Backups	+20% of price	+20% of price
One-Click Apps	no	yes
Storage Expansion Option	yes	yes
Price	2.9€/m	5$/m

I want to point out a few things here:

• The Hetzner Server has better specs although it costs about half the DigitalOcean one.
• Hetzner includes 20 times more bandwith than DigitalOcean.

About One-Click Apps, I would argue that:

1. If you can't install software on your server, chances are you will be unable to maintain it
2. There are many resources online on installing almost anything on your server

So I think it's not a big deal that they don't offer them.

Recommendation

Based on the chart, I think it is obvious that I recommend using Hetzner. Use my link to get 20€ free server credit to start

Note: I've been using Hetzner for multiple months now and am very happy with them. I did not recommend them based on their affiliate payout. (DigitalOcean actually pays out more)