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You can get a GCP micro VPS for free, “forever”. I have a free VPS always running, and run beefier VPSs as-needed for my personal projects. For my needs, GCP and Colab (sometimes Pro, sometimes free) are convenient and time-savers.

You can also get a free Oracle Cloud VPS, and Alibaba provides good cloud value also. Many years ago, I enrolled in Microsoft’s BizSpark program, and if they still do that, check them out. So many good options…

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Here's a comparison of some free clouds: https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

Isn't there terrible bandwidth restrictions for the GCP free tier VMs?

Oracle gives you 10TB of monthly bandwith + a 4 core/24gb ram ARM VM + 1 or 2 (can't remember) 1Core/1GB x86 AMD Epyc core... for free. If you are just looking to get a cloud VM for personal projects, it's by far your best option.

It's a bit weird to say considering it's oracle, but there's no catch and no hidden costs. As long as you don't upgrade to a paid account, there's no way to even mess up and get charged

Limited to 50mb/s ... But yes ... It's free :)

Is that really the case? I just ran the CLI version of speedtest.net and I got way more than the 4Gbps that oracle advertises. Though I only ran the test on ARM, and I know AMD VMs get much less bandwidth. I also wouldn't be surprised if my results aren't representative of real world sustained usage.

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