Had an account on asmallorange (https://asmallorange.com) for a while. Can't vouch for their compute power, but if barebones shell access is what you're after, they do well.
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#12Lowendbox, lurk 3+ years offers during blackfriday and you'll pay 1-5 dollars/year for a 2gb ram VPS with unlimited traffic in a non 13-eyes country. Payable in bitcoin.
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#13Take advantage of student credits!
Even when you run out of credits, all cloud providers have a pretty generous free tier.
For example see haveibeenpwn.com's cost breakdown for running a hugely popular api for less than a dollar a month: https://www.troyhunt.com/serverless-to-the-max-doing-big-thi...
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#14Google cloud free tier gives everyone (not just students) one 'always' free vps instance. It works great for me.
Oracle promised 2 instances but got an error 'out of capacity' error instead. Support staff confirmed they dont have hardware in my region.
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#15It's all about the pre-cloud hosting providers. Check out the Black Hat SEO forums - the people there generally are running all manner of sketchy services, bots, crawlers, etc. that need the cheapest compute available. The old hosting providers often have deals that can get you more power than the equivalent Amazon machine for the same price. If you're looking to be able to host something that other people might use,…
Also look at webhostingtalk.com (that’s where all the BHW vendors are buying from anyway)
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#16Hetzner.
They offer VMs with 1 vCPU and 2GB RAM for 3€/month. Quite a deal.
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#17Just get a Hetzner. Costs very little, good exercise to set it up with a usable config. I even have one that I barely ever use.
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#18Had an account on asmallorange ( https://asmallorange.com ) for a while. Can't vouch for their compute power, but if barebones shell access is what you're after, they do well.
A Small Orange was acquired by EIG (Endurance International Group) in 2012[1] and has reportedly gone downhill since[2].
[1] https://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/site-updates-n... [2] https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/01/19/the-rise-and-fall-o...
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#19I use digitalocean.
Not because they are cheap but because they are great. It just so happens they have a $5 / month plan for a 1 CPU core / 1GB of memory / 25GB SSD server.
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#20Sounds crazy, but the Orcale free tier might work for you. Enough to run two small Linux VPS instances free.
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