Free vs Low-cost RDP/VPS – real differences people notice over time?
I’ve been reading a lot of threads here and noticed many discussions around free VPS and very low-cost RDP/VPS services. On paper they often look similar, but in real usage the experience seems very different.
From what I’ve seen, free setups usually struggle with things like CPU throttling, unstable I/O, and noisy neighbors, while even cheap paid services tend to be more predictable. Still, some people seem to make free options work for certain use cases.
I’m currently testing and researching RDP/VPS setups for a small project (rdpextra.com), and I’m more interested in learning from real user experiences than promoting anything.
I’d love to hear:
Where did free VPS actually work for you?
What was the first limitation you hit?
At what point did moving to paid make sense?
Looking forward to hearing honest opinions from the community.
Comments
Who is providing free VPS?
How much do low-cost RDP/VPS cost?
Free VPS (e.g. MicroLXC) is an amazing place for me testing out projects and ideas.
Most have no SLA and no guarantee of data protection (for very understandable reasons), from that point onwards, I move onto a more professional manner of deploying the VPS on a paid service, it does me great.
On my TierHive account, which is a really budget VPS provider (aff), I host a server that I use as a disposable node in my Pterodactyl installation, I use it to test images, thanks to HAProxy, I can fit 1 container and the whole Pterodactyl node comfortably in a system.
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