[angulardragon03]

It’s a bit convoluted with the VM getting disabled a month in (and very annoying), but the fix is pretty easy. You can delete the old VM (keeping the boot disk), and recreate it with the original boot disk. New public IP address will be assigned, but after that you won’t have issues. I’ve been running my instance for almost a solid year without issues since the month trial ended.

[pSYoniK]

I agree it can be fixed, it was more of a cautionary tale - you go ahead and set something up and 30 days down the line it's not responding. Depending on what you might've played with, you now have to start from scratch. I was using it to do a setup from scratch for a Wireguard VPN and being still early on I was going through things one at a time so didn't have any scripts setup to run the whole setup on a new machine. I had lost quite a bit of work - again; early days.