[m00x]

That's 2 cups of coffee, or 1 latte. It's objectively not a huge chunk of change unless you live in a very LCOL area.

You can also go to any competitors, which have their smallest tier around the same price. Linode has a $5/m tier.

You could also buy a Raspberry Pi for $50 and run it in your closet.

[gwbas1c]

> or a hobby or a one-off project

I don't want to pay $5 / month indefinitely to host a weekend project.

I don't want to deal with the complexities of hosting a weekend project myself. I've done plenty of that.

I just don't want to end up spending $100-200 / month to host a lifetime of weekend projects and experiments.

[m00x]

Then you can get a raspberry Pi and host it in your closet.

[gwbas1c]

> I don't want to deal with the complexities of hosting a weekend project myself. I've done plenty of that.

That involves port forwarding, figuring out something like dyndns, and whatever I need to share domains on a single IP.