I've used Vultr, they let you pick location of servers and have many. Found speeds very good, pricing very good too.
You need to know what your doing though, Vultr really is a DIY online solution. Server setup can seem easy, but DNS is needed. Domains need to be on a registar. So there is always gonna be that extra need. Although most services offer DIY built in DNS.. IPs and gateways etc all very clear. So its easy once you get it figured.
They do offer some automated bits, but you'll need knowledge of basic server setup and DNS no matter.
Some scripts may help you along that way though.
Not used Cloudways,but have also used DigitalOcean.
Pricing and speeds similar to Vultr, Vultr I found to be a little faster in everything.
Digitalocean will offer you more automated setups though, more guides, generally more guiding platform.
Both platforms usually will throw $100 credit at you if you find a code, gives you more than enough to test on.
I personally struggled a bit with some setups, so ended up opting for Managed VPS with Decibite. Super cheap, getting better specs (doubled nearly) and now on a setup I wouldn't even have thought off. Easyengine for websites, with dns/emails hosted on another instance, using cpanel.
I am paying $20 a month for this, opposed to $10 a month if I had done it myself on Vultr.
May head back to them eventually now I have some more smarts about correct DNS setup etc.
If you do need to brush up on server set up/DNS, using a local VM is a great place to do it easily/free.
I host some of my own sites from home on a VM server
