What's the cheapest (commercially available) virtual machine anywhere?

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jiripospisil · Accepted Answer

If you mean a VPS, then have a look at Oracle Cloud's free tier. They will give you a pretty beefy machine for free, especially if you decide to go with an Arm based cpu. The downside of course is that it comes from Oracle.https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free

ellen364 · Answer

Google Cloud offers a semi-permanently [0] free e2-micro VM instance. It includes 30GB disk space and 1GB outbound traffic. Can only be spun up in certain US regions, though.
More info in the Compute Engine row of this table: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#free-tier-u...
[0] There’s no time limit, but presumably Google can withdraw the offer.

NickRandom · Answer

LowEndBox is worth taking a look at, they often have specials and even if some of those are outdated sometimes the providers will offer the same price if approached. As always though - you get what you pay for

bradknowles · Answer

More than a few providers have a free tier, including AWS.But there is no cloud server that is cheaper than no cloud server -- like proxmox on your own hardware.

What's the cheapest (commercially available) virtual machine anywhere?

What's the cheapest (commercially available) virtual machine anywhere?

If you mean a VPS, then have a look at Oracle Cloud's free tier. They will give you a pretty beefy machine for free, especially if you decide to go with an Arm based cpu. The downside of course is that it comes from Oracle.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free

LowEndBox is worth taking a look at, they often have specials and even if some of those are outdated sometimes the providers will offer the same price if approached. As always though - you get what you pay for

More than a few providers have a free tier, including AWS.
But there is no cloud server that is cheaper than no cloud server -- like proxmox on your own hardware.