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by pbhjpbhj 4105 days ago
Re testing. If you follow this link - https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=3fc9a5a35c52 - you get $10 free credit (affiliate link I get $25 if you spend that much in future) on DigitalOcean.

You can spin up a droplet and use the online shell tool or ssh in (very easy when you've set up a cert as the droplet can have the cert setup automatically).

Then you can mess about with a droplet as much as you like, virtually speaking. Once you're done then use the control panel to destroy the droplet - it costs a few ยข a day and if you don't have a droplet in use (which means active or paused; preserving images is cheaper but non-zero) then you don't pay anything.

Basically sign up and have a year of uptime to mess with a full install of various OS with no charge.

Make sure you don't write "rm -rf /*" in the wrong terminal!