I want to monthly rent a VPS in the very near future to host a website, a Peertube instance and an email server as minimum. But despite having used Linux as a home operative system for 3 years, I pretty much known nothing to properly secure online services.
So I want to first have a “dummy” cloud system where I can mess around with configurations and everything without risking losing money while I am still learning.
While typing this it crossed my mind I could also create a virtual network in Virtualbox, at least when I used it on Windows years ago it allowed you to do it. Could this also work? To create two virtual machines under the same network with one acting as server and one as client?
Your virtual box solution should work. You can even set it up to grab an IP from your actual network so it’s right on your LAN.
Digital Ocean is really straight forward has $5/mo VPS, one click K8s, monitoring, etc.
This is my referral code that I believe gives you $200 in credit over 2 months.
Oracle has 2 free ARM instances.
I use one as a VPN endpoint.
Other one I might try playing with SOCKs.
I know, but apparently my bank doesn’t trust it and blocks the account verification.
Ah damn. I’m sorry, that sucks!
Azure, AWS and GCP all provide free credits along with free VMs for periods of time
Edit - client/server VMs on a single machine, yes absolutely possible.
Thank you!
If you can, how much time do you estimate those free credits would last if I am just myself using them?
Depends what you do! Each have price calculators you can use to estimate cost. It’s usually all pay as you go, and hourly. You can always shut VMs down when not used to reduce payment.
At least with Azure they also have very small VMs on a free tier which wouldn’t use any credits up
