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http://www.lowendbox.com http://www.lowendbox.com - a number of providers are a little shady on there but there are some gems where new VPS providers want to sell loss-leader instances to get traction. You can occasionally get deals for ~$15/year for a *nix VPS, and certainly find something usable for ~$8+/month. EDIT: I wouldn't run anything in production on these boxes, but they are great for dev machines, VPN/SSH proxies for securing open wifi traffic, remote shell, etc.