Someone else already mentioned that you get much more for 1$.

Check out BuyVM 3.50$ plan.

2g vs 512m. Thats $5 vs $16

Yeah. Back in ~2011, when I was in high school, I used to sell these kinds of VMs as a host and advertised on LowEndBox. Literally as a minor. I don't really trust any small time host with my data.

Meanwhile I recently migrated a $5 DigitalOcean VM that's been running flawlessly for over 6 years. It was in dire need of an Ubuntu upgrade. I expect this one to keep going for just as long!

No idea why you're being downvoted. I've bought el cheapo LowEndTalk-style VPS specials on two or three occasions and have gotten what I paid for each time. They either sold a microscopic slice of some over-provisioned 15-year-old POS or outright lied to me about specs then argued until I did a chargeback to recover my money.

For app hosting I'd either 1) use cloudflared and a cheap Lenovo Tiny box to host from my house, 2) write something serverless that runs on Cloudflare Workers, or 3) use a real host that isn't 18 months old and run by hucksters in a race to the bottom.

These cheap resellers are also magnets for spammers, scammers, and hax0rs, so good luck running anything you don't want caught up in a subnet ban.

same impression. When you want to have memory hangry MariaDB to run fast, RAM is most important, and OVH prices are insanely cheap comparing to basically everyone else.

Lightsail also does not offer any form of virtual serial console to access a VM where you've accidentally broken networking or ssh, when even the crappiest lowendbox-tier VM provider generally does. The only way to 'recover' a lightsail VM that's in that state is to export the storage device to full amazon services starting from a $25/mo VM.

Neither does GitHub, and for whatever reason everyone and their cousin uses it still. :)

Uptime is overrated.