First post and unfortunately it's not some sharing of knowledge, but rather some desperate questions. Not sure I got the syntax for tags right.

Long story short, my web host has apparently been hit by ransomware and I'm looking at alternatives.

My web site is currently PHP and MySQL, but I'm rewriting it using ASP.NET Core and - so far - a SQL Server back end. That host was able to provide these features without breaking the bank(...)

I've been looking at other ASP.NET Windows hosts and the features are either lacking, outdated, or out of my price range. So, I'm beginning to wonder if I could deploy my ASP.NET Core web site (if I ever get around to finishing it) to a Linux shared host (there's talk of nginx in the Microsoft documentation) and possibly targeting MySQL instead of SQL Server.

So... questions:

1) Has anyone here had any experience with deploying an ASP.NET Core site to a Linux shared host?

2) Any experience with EF Core 3.0 and MySQL? I'm not married to SQL Server, it's just usually easier to use with .NET.

Bonus question (3) Any hosting recommendations?

This was supposed to be a relaxing weekend where I'd be experimenting with Vue.js...