• kudo hosting suddenly shut doors with only two days notice to users to get their data downloaded on Dec 19, 2019. 20 VPS providers did this at the same time.
  • An review/advert advertorial for kudo hosting: https://lowendbox.com/blog/kudohosting-3gb-ram-vps-for-19-year-in-los-angeles-alpha-reseller-hosting-offers-inside/

Amazon Web Services

• aws free services - 1 year free web server in the cloud - 1 vcpu, 512MB of memory.
• This is the bare minimum memory to run Windows 2019 server in, probably without graphical RDS environment

Microsoft Azure

• Similar offer to Amazons, web server for a year with a microsoft operating system on it.
• Microsoft Calculator - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/#virtual-machines
  • INSTANCE: B1MS: 1 Core, 2 GB RAM, 4 GB Temporary storage, US$0.0185/hour - with 64GB P6 Premium SSD
    • $21.02 pay as go, plus $10.21 in storage - $31.23 a month
    • 1 year reserved drops CPU to $10.21 - $23.71 a month
• What happens at the end of the one year with Azure: It becomes pay as you go. link

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