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My $6.75 per year VPS was a Black Friday sale from Dedirock on https://lowendtalk.com. Some of the Black Friday sales are still being honored. The site https://cheapvpsbox.com/ has a nice search engine for cheap VPS sales.

Note: just be sure to have some sort of backup solution because when a deal seems to be too good to be true, sometimes the company will go under.

I had that happen years ago, consequently it meant my first ever VPS disappearing.

I think the deal back then was like 15 EUR per year.

Scaleway has small instances (Stardust) btw: https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/

They seem expensive otherwise so I’d go with Hetzner for most other stuff. Heck I’ve even used Contabo too (they don’t have the best reputation, but it worked out okay for me).

I recommend a dedicated $40 hetzner or OVH box and just keep all your projects on that. They're pretty powerful. I was spending a lot on a bunch of $5 linodes until recently and you have to keep them upgraded etc...

how deep are your WebApps? Cloudflare pages and workers have a generous free tier, depending on what you're doing.