What do you do with your free tier or dirt-cheap VM?

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codefined · Accepted Answer

Host https://femto.pw, a free file uploading and downloading service.

etherio · Answer

Host my automated newsletter http://metadigest.uzpg.me and my blog http://uzpg.me

api · Answer

Host a personal site and use it as an arbitrary shell box from which to test network stuff. I also have it set up so I can route through it when traveling to avoid crappy captive portals and suspect networks.

djbeadle · Answer

I use the Digital Ocean $5/month VM to self host my static website (generated via Hugo although I'm not thrilled with it) on Apache, run Grafana and an InfluxDB server and experiment with Unix.

yarapavan · Answer

Try one of the awesome-selfhosted solutions.