Switching from a Shared Hosting Service to a Droplet

Hi, I’ve been reading a lot about the digital ocean, and well, I currently have a shared hosting with another company, and I feel unsatisfied with it because I only have outdated packages, and makes me hard, try and develop stuff to show, or host, there.

Currently I have, a Wordpress, and a Static Site (just HTML’s with javascript), but I am starting to develop some web applications, and I really would like to be able to host them, somewhere, but I can’t find a decent hosting service to do it, so now I’m thinking on a droplet, and this would help me host everything in the same service, I guess, even do a little bit of development and testing.

But I’m not sure, what kind of droplet will be able to handle this kind of load, a part of me says that a basic one of 1Gb of ram and 25Gb of storage is enough because I compare it with my current hosting specs.

I haven’t checked the tutorials, but Is there a way to manage In a cPanel like way?

What I’m worried is to have to manually install everything, to do the configs, I mean, I can do it, but this would be my first time doing all this bootstrapping for the server.

Any Suggestion? which documentation should I read?, or what plan should I get? Is it worth moving from a shared hosting to host my applications?

Keep In mind, the switch Is in order to assist my project developments, and also host my sites (that are only 2, probably 3 in a near future)