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That is pretty cheap ($10/year with own domain), but I pay $12/year for a full-blown VPS and it is pretty stable (would not use it if my life depended on it though but it is more stable then my Comcast Internet service)... found it here: https://www.lowendstock.com/

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That $12 VPS includes a domain? Because that's the only paid thing in the blog post.

I thought that this $10/year was for using a domain that you already owned... yes I did need to pay another $10 for a domain.

How legit is this? Seems too good to be true and more like a scam. Any experience anyone?

It's legit. Not a scam. I have no idea how Netlify can offer so much in their free tier, but they do. They are likely to get bought out by a Cloudflare, etc, at some point, so time will tell if the free tier will remain so feature-full.

The parent asked about Low End Stock, not about Netlify

Oh you were referring to lowendstock.com. Yeah, you'll need to be careful when considering low-end price VPS providers in general. Some can certainly be fly-by-night. You can find reviews and discussion at lowendtalk.com and lowendbox.com.

Here's some that are for sure legit and been around for a long time though (does not imply necessarily that providers not listed are not legit though):

Ramnode BuyVM Securedragon Lowendspirit

I personally use BuyVM and Netcup.eu.

I'm just a customer ... it is very legit but it is a bit like ebay and amazon so of course the quality varies.

There are few VPS services for $1/month, but if you pay slightly more, like 2-3 USD/month, or have patience to wait for a campaign, or are prepared to pay two years upfront, you will get a high quality vps service, and can expect the same uptime as the major cloud services. If you can afford another 1-3 dollars per month, get an additional VPS on another network, and set up round robin DNS for load balancing. Which for 2-6 USD per month gives you almost close to 100% uptime. And 1-2 TB monthly bandwidth. 1-2 vCPU cores and 256 MB memory is more then enough to handle a static web site.

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