Wrapping Up Believe it or not, we've covered quite a bit in this tutorial. We set up a Linode instance, pointed a domain to Linode, set up Portainer and Nginx Proxy Manager and even created a network ...

While Linode and Rackspace provide cheap servers starting at $20 a month, DigitalOcean has two key advantages — it starts at $5 a month for a comparable offering, and it now uses SSD.

Unsurprisingly, that often means adding support for containers, which is exactly what Linode is doing with the beta launch of its Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) this week.