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Quick check suggests £3.75 vs £57.29 a month there. I'd pay up to £12/month for FreeBSD as a privilege.

You might enjoy looking at Bigv (http://bigv.io/) from the well-known UK company, Bytemark.

They offer a cloudy-type self-managed virtual machine platform which is close to your £12 budget.

I moved off bigv to digital ocean. Management and billing are far better on DO.