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You should include your own time in calculating the cost of a VPS host.

Before I discovered Linode and Digital Ocean, I tried to use the free VPS that was developed and maintained by the computer club at my school. It took me hours upon ours to get to an SSH terminal and would have been way cheaper for me to just work a minimum wage job and pay for one maintained by people who had the time to think about user experience rather than exams.

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You're saving yourself really some time when using digitalocean, they work without a problem and you know exactly how much you're paying at the end.

When you're a student you can get even 50$ credit through Github https://education.github.com/pack.

In my opinion it's worth it.

>You should include your own time in calculating the cost of a VPS host.

Thanks, good point. I had just started to think, after posting the question, that maybe I shouldn't bother about $5 vs. $2.5 or $3, and instead look at the reliability of the host. As you say, if more of my own time is needed with the cheaper option, it would actually be more expensive.

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