Digital ocean droplets are great for a $5/month cloud for toy projects. Extremely easy setup. I use it for running an instance of "https://thelounge.github.io " and a few other projects which essentially pays for itself since it's replacing a $5/month irccloud membership. I don't know, aws or google cloud or azure might have something similar, but the elastic pricing style options were less appealing for my use case when I was checking out the options.