You have to check out
www.vultr.com... essentially same price as Digital Ocean, same basic features, but WOW are the servers fast.
I just installed another Asterisk 13/IPBX build in 12 minutes.
BTW, Ward, for your article today: You should turn people on to Prefixer, the very cool dialing app for Android. It does automatic prefix and suffix insertion based on a regex pattern. I have it so I can dial any three digit extension on my pbx just by dialing 3 digits. or, I prefix a number with 9 or 011 and it uses my pbx for international calls. All with DISA password, no hassles, no fuss, no mess.