Its working just fine. Running some MySQL and Minecraft server without any problems.

And free 10TB of traffic...

What benchmark do you want me to run?

(Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)

None would make any sense to me. I'm working my way through freecodecamp and feel like starting to play with a server.

That's awesome.

Well, while it certainly looks (and feels) a bit like a cliché, I find myself recommending AWS for such a purpose. Common issues will be a single StackOverflow answer away. The platform (infra, byzantine pricing model) is at least well documented. The company has a reputation for making expensive honest accidents go away :).

This being said, exploration and _actually having to dive into something_ can provide insight and understanding that just doesn't get mentally registered when on the mainstream path (because it all just works).

And as another commenter said, you get 10TB of traffic. Which is hands-down insane. At 450Mbps too. (Boggles) (AWS is 1GB/mo, albeit at 1Gbit.)

I host quite a lot of stuff on those two VMs, works fine.

Thanks!