I spun up the PDS on Digital Ocean using my own domain. I wanted to originally self host on a Raspberry Pi 4b I have sitting around but decided a VPS would be better. One, because I can host it in the EU for better stability and privacy (yes it's a public protocol, but how that data can be used is also important). Two, I get familiar with a platform other than GCP, and three, it will hopefully be the springboard into some portfolio projects around the fediverse.
Looking forward to what I come up with and learning on this journey.