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Ask HN: What's the cheapest (commercially available) virtual machine anywhere?

• frankjr 4y ago
  If you mean a VPS, then have a look at Oracle Cloud's free tier. They will give you a pretty beefy machine for free, especially if you decide to go with an Arm based cpu. The downside of course is that it comes from Oracle. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free
• ellen364 4y ago
  Google Cloud offers a semi-permanently [0] free e2-micro VM instance. It includes 30GB disk space and 1GB outbound traffic. Can only be spun up in certain US regions, though. More info in the Compute Engine row of this table: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#free-tier-usage-limits https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#free-tier-u... [0] There’s no time limit, but presumably Google can withdraw the offer.
• NickRandom 4y ago
  LowEndBox is worth taking a look at, they often have specials and even if some of those are outdated sometimes the providers will offer the same price if approached. As always though - you get what you pay for
• bradknowles 4y ago
  More than a few providers have a free tier, including AWS. But there is no cloud server that is cheaper than no cloud server -- like proxmox on your own hardware.