Suggested hosting

The thing to remember about AWS or Digital Ocean is that you are responsible for maintaining the "full stack". If you're not webadmins then these kinds of services might be more than you care to tackle.

That said, I like Digital Ocean (DO). It provides much of the same infrastructure that AWS does but with a smaller learning curve. As you add more stuff from the AWS bag of tricks costs can easily get out of control. That a little harder to do with DO. But they are still capable of scaling to meet some pretty demanding needs.