If you're looking to stretch a budget I'd look to companies like Hetzner rather than looking to the cloud.
I'd try to increase the revenue my server generates rather than decrease the cost of servers, but I'm the kind of guy who thinks it's possible to pull more than 5 cents an hour in revenue from a server, but if you only get 5 cents per hour then it would be important to use linux so you maintain your 2 cent per hour profit margin.
I'd try to increase the revenue my server generates rather than decrease the cost of servers, but I'm the kind of guy who thinks it's possible to pull more than 5 cents an hour in revenue from a server, but if you only get 5 cents per hour then it would be important to use linux so you maintain your 2 cent per hour profit margin.