I'm going to get a CPX11 cloud server from Hetzner in the US data center, so I can spin it up and practice transferring another one of my sites across to it. It's only like $6pm for 2 vCPU 2gb ram on shared hosting. Then, once I get the hang of it, I can reconfigure it to a Dedicated CPU in the cloud.
I suppose I will need to decide what operating system to use, which is perhaps compatible with DirectAdmin. I am assuming that DA is available for Hetzners cloud computing. All a learning curve for me. Not sure which OS to use yet