I’ve heard others recommend Low End Box before but I have no experience, so do some due diligence before selecting any of these!
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Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.
Edit: https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing (apparently the cheapest is $3.5 - annually)
Super easy things you can do as exercises and take no serious resources:
- build a static site and host it locally
- host your music collection
- host your video collection
- setup the *arr stack
- setup home assistant for your dorm room
If you're into developing and stuff, GitLab
Plex server
Jellyfin server
ELK stack or security onion
Get steam working, connect via steam link.
If you have a credit card and can pass their validation, Oracle offers a shockingly good set of free cloud options.
4 core, 24gb ram ARM instance, two potato epyc instances, 200gb of disk space and 10tb of transfer and various other little bits and pieces for the grand total of $0.
Some people have had their accounts closed for "no reason", but I'm closing in on 2 years of free shit with no problems, so ymmv.
(I strongly suspect no reason has a reason and a huge number of these people were running VPNs, so I'd wager they either did something stupid/illegal, or someone they gave access to did something stupid/illegal.)
I was just thinking about my free oracle server if it would be good for my own lemmy instance?
Mine's running just fine (along with about a dozen other things) on the A1/ARM instance you can get for free.
I wouldn't say performance is stunningly good - the Ampere cores aren't especially fast single threaded, and postgres is.... well, it's not the most threaded thing ever under really low loads - but it does what it's supposed to.
Not for longevity. Oracle can shut it off in a blink for no reason