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.