I've had a $20 a month Linode VPS for over ten years. I have a $13 a month Ramnode VPS as secondary or backup for a lot of things, like DNS. At one point I wa

I've had a $20 a month Linode VPS for over ten years. I have a $13 a month Ramnode VPS as secondary or backup for a lot of things, like DNS. At one point I was pretty steadily making $2000 a month revenue on my side business, sometimes peaking to $3000. Mostly serving up JSON (or XML at one point) as well as media like PNGs or epub's or the like. The Linode has 4 gigs RAM, 2 CPU cores, 80 gigs storage, runs Debian. I'm given 4 TB of net traffic a month, but I never even got to 1 TB a month. I did look at VPS's which were even cheaper at the time - less than $10 a month, but I passed on them, $400 a year for VPSs was within my allocated budget, especially since revenue was over $20,000 a year.