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Good advice - might be worth just trying a micro EC2 instance from Amazon, which is part of their free tier. http://aws.amazon.com/free/ http://aws.amazon.com/

• andrewf 14y ago
  Micro instances have savage CPU throttling with a little bit of leeway. What this translates into is you'll compile something biggish (eg node.js), things will seem fine for a few minutes, then the machine appears to freeze. * If you want to keep a machine around that you know doesn't do much, it's the cheapest option on AWS. But it's no fun if you're doing unplanned, interactive work. Even for the first use case, you want to fire up a bigger instance to do things like package installation, then restart as a micro once its configured. (* I experienced this a year ago. Others report similar things.)
• niggler 14y ago
  Microsoft BizSpark (free for startups, http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) gives quite a bit of azure access (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Azure/Default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Azure/Default.aspx) to let you run multiple virtual machines. HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293098