For indie developers

Ship side projects without the AWS billing anxiety.

Premium NVMe VPS with hourly billing, full API, Terraform-ready. Spin up a dev environment for an afternoon, kill it, and pay $0.024 for the privilege. No NAT gateway fees, no surprise egress invoices, no 30-page bills.

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You shouldn't need a billing alarm to ship a side project.

The cloud was supposed to make this easy. Instead, you spend an hour reading IAM docs, another hour figuring out which gateway charges what, and you still wake up in a sweat wondering if you left a NAT gateway running. Indie projects don't generate hyperscaler revenue, so they shouldn't carry hyperscaler complexity. You want a real Linux box, an API to manage it, the ability to spin it up and tear it down without ceremony, and a bill that fits on one line.

Hourly billing that actually saves you money

Spin up a 2GB Premium NVMe VPS for an afternoon of testing: $0.024/hour. Run it for 4 hours, pay $0.10. No 60-second minimums, no powered-off charges if you destroy it. Run an entire CI/CD test suite on real hardware for less than the price of a coffee.

Full API, Terraform, Ansible, cloud-init

Everything in the dashboard is in the API. Use the OpenStack-compatible endpoints with the Terraform OpenStack provider, drive provisioning from Ansible, or pass cloud-init user data straight from your Git repo. Snapshot, restore, resize, all programmable.

Predictable production costs

When your side project becomes a real project, you don't get punished for it. A 2GB Premium NVMe with 6TB bandwidth costs $14/month, period. The same workload on AWS with comparable specs and bandwidth runs $40 to $80 once you factor in egress and IPv4.

Recommended plan

Premium NVMe VPS

From $14/mo

Latest Xeon CPUs, DDR4 memory, NVMe storage. Hourly billing on every plan.

6TB to 18TB bandwidth depending on tier.

The 2GB tier ($14/mo or $0.024/hr) is the sweet spot for:

A SaaS MVP backend (Postgres + your API + Redis)
A staging environment for your day-job project
A dedicated CI runner
Self-hosted Coolify, Dokploy, or Caprover for one-click app deploys
An always-on n8n or Zapier-replacement automation server

Step up to 4GB ($28/mo) when you start serving real users, your Postgres needs more buffer cache, or you're running multiple services in Docker Compose.

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Spin up a server in 60 seconds

Using the OpenStack CLI (works with our API):

openstack server create \
  --image ubuntu-24.04 \
  --flavor premium-2gb \
  --network public \
  --key-name my-key \
  my-side-project

Or with Terraform:

resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2" "side_project" {
  name        = "my-side-project"
  image_name  = "ubuntu-24.04"
  flavor_name = "premium-2gb"
  key_pair    = "my-key"
}