Rather than hosting in the cloud, you might consider using Docker Desktop (or Podman, or Rancher) on a used Windows laptop along with a tunneling solution (I ma

Rather than hosting in the cloud, you might consider using Docker Desktop (or Podman, or Rancher) on a used Windows laptop along with a tunneling solution (I maintain a list here[0]) which gets around NAT/CGNAT and keeps your IP address private. Something like Cloudflare Tunnel is the easiest, but you can also selfhost your own server in which case your VPS is simply a relay. [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling