Paying $5 a month for Digital Ocean or Hetzner will save you from the pain of using any of these cloud platform for just a simple VM.

Using Azure, AWS and Oracle's free tier has been a pain in the past. I found a cheap VPS on lowendbox and it's been running well for the past 6 months (6 core, 8GB ram, 256 nvme, unmetered traffic for $80/year).

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