Care to share the provider you are using?
Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.
As an aside, one of my friends has a 100 meg free VPS from one of the terrible free vps providers. He has managed to squeeze a Minecraft server on, and that can hold about 2 or 3 players! (apart from the terrible network, cpu and uptime)
A database server or similar wouldn't work, of course.
1GB-YEARLY
3 vCores
1GB RAM
512MB vSwap
50GB RAID10 Disk
1TB Outbound BW
1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6
OpenVZ/SolusVM
[1] http://iniz.com/[2] http://lowendbox.com/blog/iniz-yearly-deals-and-more-25year-...
1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble!
2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me.