@cmessiter

You can install the one-click NodeJS image to a Droplet and then proceed to install MySQL and PHP using the package manager provided by Ubuntu, yes. You’ll still be provided with root access to the Droplet, so you could install other packages as well, if needed.

If you’re only running PHP scripts from CRON you’d at least need PHP’s CLI package, though if you want to run PHP scripts from the web browser at any point, I’d recommend also installing NGINX and using PHP-FPM. You would then setup NGINX as a reverse proxy and it would handle proxying to both PHP and your NodeJS application(s).