I run most of my stuff from home, but I have the need for an offsite server anywhere in the world, just to run a single docker for UptimeKuma.
Anyone recommend a free VPS ? All the ones I’ve seen so far are not even VPS (shared hosting), or want to take over my domain, which I do not want. Or is someone kind enough to run an instance of UptimeKuma on their system for me ? 
I literally just need it to watch a few personal sites and ports for me 
Google offer a free e2-micro VM with 30GB disk and 1GB RAM:
You need to be careful and create the VM of the following type and in the following location or it won’t be free of charge:
1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions:
Oregon: us-west1
Iowa: us-central1
South Carolina: us-east1
Here’s some of them:
I pay like £1.70 a month from ionos. I’d just do that than trust anything that’s free
Oracle has a free tier. But I’ve heard of accounts being deleted randomly.
Aws has a free tier that would work for you.
I believe oracle has a free tier too
Not totally a VPS but you can use the free tier of fly.io, I use it for uptime-kuma and it’s very good
OCI:
Pretty nice, but I wouldn’t trust them without a DR plan in mind.
This is what i use an OCI free tier instance for. People have their opinions, but for free i have no complaints.
I use Oracle clouds always free VPS which works great
You can deploy an Uptime Kuma container here, they provide free credits. Very easy to setup and run small containers.
Discord.gg/basementhost they provide for free
i don’t get why my parents won’t buy me a VPN. (its $11.00)
now i have to pay for it.
If all you want to monitor is uptime of websites outside your infra, check out this site for exactly that
They want to charge for add ons, and there are adds in there messages, but meh, it does the job well
SMS is one of the things they charge for, but simply put in your sms email address which is super easy to find.
Ex. I am on verizon
And let’s pretentd my number is 555-130-8573
Then the email to hit my sms is [email protected]
That way I get the uptime messages via SMS, which I really like, and I don’t have to pay for SMS service with them
Note to the community… if you are not the client, then you are the product 
The Oracle offer is the most generous. I have no problems with them. The single machine from Google is ok, the bandwidth is really limited (1 GB) so you might need to pay for the extra. Another less known possibility if you have access to any school or university account, is azure for students which gives you two decent machines although one unfortunately for windows server.
Thanks all, have fired up a AWS instance and see how I go. Cheers
Oracle cloud has a solid free tier. Contrary to issues I’ve heard some people faced, I’ve been using it for more than 3 years with no issues at all
fly.io - Should be able to setup uptime-kuma through that
Im willing to spin something up for you dm me