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They don't advertise themselves as a company particularly concerned with preserving the absolute privacy of their customers like PIA does. I admit I haven't read their privacy policy, but I'm assuming they would have no problems handing over logs, and I'm assuming they indeed keep logs (or at least are entirely willing to do so if asked to).

What is the benefit of this over using a provider like PIA? PIA claims to store no logs, and this claim is supported with evidence that government entities could not force them to turn over any logs. But if you use a provider like Digital Ocean and run your own VPN, then Digital Ocean can and will log all connections and traffic to and from the VPN, and if a government entity of any sort ever approached them for any reason (such as if self-hosting VPNs became commonplace with DO, and the NSA wanted to suck all that data up), they'd hand it all over immediately.