I can affirm that LifeBoat is an outstanding tool. It is a literal life-saver as it does the install and prep for web apps for the user, and I use it VERY well with DigitalOcean droplets (server spin-ups) and it works so well that I have stopped all self-hosting and have moved all my hosting to DigitalOcean until I can get a “real” data center set up (I just purchased real estate for this purpose and may be breaking ground on my first structures next year).
LifeBoat has saved me many hours of work.