Do you have a link to this 5 dollar service you mention? The ones I knew have risen prices considerably.
lots of hosting providers with cheap options these days.
Lightsail instances each include at least 1TB of transfer each month, which is the same as DigitalOcean. Vultr and Linode also charge network overage fees on a per gigabyte basis if you transfer too much. Absolutely, everyone should set up billing alerts on any of these services.
I'm not here to say Lightsail is the absolute best option, just an option.
In which case, I’m not using any of them outside of an LLC.
I suspect the bandwidth is lower, but that is fair enough.
Although my current one only has 512MB RAM and isn’t enough for Rust to compile Scryer Prolog. Prolog, a language first run on the computers of 1971 and standardised around 1998.
The impression I get is that most $5 VPSes are basically the same, although I've really only used Linode. They give you some useful free stuff like an external firewall/router and monitoring (with only 24 hours of history, but that's plenty). Their docs and scripts are really good too if, like me, you're only a dilettante sysadmin.
Started using them for almost 15 years ago when running an SMTP server on home-tier internet connections became less feasible.