Running your own website on a Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Factors to consider when buying a VPS

https://www.mckerracher.net/vps

https://www.ait.com/tech-corner/11500-vps-hosting-101-an-ultimate-guide-for-beginners

Quick start guides

Logging in, for all providers: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-20-04

For the OVH provider: https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/vps/getting-started-vps/

For the Linode provider: https://www.linode.com/docs/getting-started/

Building a website

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04

I personally prefer Nginx over Apache because of the syntax of the configuration files. The tutorial above uses Nginx. If you want to use Apache instead, here's a tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu-20-04

Your files for your website should be in /var/www/your_domain, replacing your_domain with whatever your domain name is (assuming you followed the tutorial).

You can upload them by connecting to your server through SFTP in a FTP browser such as FileZilla or by using scp in the command line.