Well, first, what is your Linux experience.
Linode and Digital Ocean both have decent documentation on creating a VPS.
Are you planning on running a panel?
It's a pity that the beta of CentMin Mod is not available for use as you could use it and Arch Linux or Rocky Linux. Right now you would be limited to CentMin Mod 7 (which has about 9 more months before it goes EOL.
And I don't know anyone that says that Linux is easy to learn. It's like learning DOS back in the old days.
My suggestion to anyone interested, get Oracle's VirtualBox and install it on Windows and play with Linux there.