I recommend DO for stuff like this, they are also great a cross cloud mechanism for health checks and dashboards. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
I've still got a LowEndTalk forums special kicking around somewhere.
15 Eur per year for a 2 CPU/1GB/ipv4/1TB traffic KVM. edit...its one from alpha vps. So far so good - feel snappier than a google free vm. But that was on a deep discount special.
It's not that hard to find cheap stuff on specials if you're ok with taking a calculated risk on the providers.
If I go the cloud route I'll probably jump on a Azure of AWS intro credit plan.
>8760 hours in year so 35 USD
So much for free tier to host low traffic websites.
Good bye and thanks for all the fish! The free VM & ip was appreciated while it lasted :)
Fortunately I built everything on a Ubuntu VM...so damn near any provider works for me.