Could not have said it better myself.

+1 on OCI free tier (ARM) - works like a charm. No need to spend those $5 a month of what OP want’s to do.

Instead of buying small VPS’s like this, why not just use OCI free tier? Their ARM compute performs pretty damn good.

Yes I know it’s Oracle (buuuuh), but this free tier/ARM compute is actually pretty good. Used it before to deploy stuff like Mastodon etc.

From the site:

Arm Compute Instance Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or up to 4 VMs

Always Free 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month