There’s a free tier on all of the major cloud providers, where they’ll give you one (or more) tiny instances of whatever service. Some are forever some are time-limited (12 months probably), but by the time you’re actually able to deploy a real app providing real service to more than a few users, you’ll be spending a bunch of money on ancillary services.
For Amazon: Free Cloud Computing Services - AWS Free Tier
I’ve never tried on AWS, I will give it a go as I have an account to backup virtualmin on S3, but on Vultr i’ve done it at least 50 times on 1 Gig and restored 15 domains as well for testing and still runs ok.
Ok, just on S3 and so many option I can see why I use Vultr, the Ubuntu instance you choose what was it, as a see some LAMP options which will cause issue with virtualmin install. The OS need to be clean of preinstalled software.
ok, does seemed to be locked at this section, animation has stopped, maybe its the console.
will leave for a while and see if it finishes.
I think the instance is locked up, I can’t connect to it.
Had to shutdown, monitoring showed CPU went 100% and stopped there, I maybe have pick the wrong processor power, aws is too confusing for me 
Amazon have a 12 month free tier 2 CPU cores, 30 GB disk and 1 GB memory, Perfect when you just want a little test server or a server to run something simple from.
Oracle has a 100% free tier Oracle Cloud Free Tier | Oracle but they have very high restrictions when you sign up. If use debit cards, prepaid cards they will fail your signup/application because they only accept credit cards.
Here is a full list of free tier VPS offered by various hosting companies:
So exactly the same result I had. 
The installation script just dies on step 6 and also renders the VPS useless and the only option is to delete it.
I guess that is what you get for FREE.
A few questions:
ufw package using apt-get purge ufw command before running Virtualmin installation script?ufw by default?ufw and then manually install apt-get install iptables firewalld packages – can you reproduce the same behavior?@LionKing What exact OS and version you’re using in AWS? Does it have 1 GB or RAM? Can you provide more specs-related details? I will try to reproduce this issue and fix it …
Hello Ilia
1.) Unfortunately I deleted the whole thing. It took way more time than I have available in my busy schedule.
2.) Amazon supplies a raw OS (in terms of Linux), so there are no ufw installed by default if I am correct. At least it isn’t enabled.
3.) I used ubuntu server 22.04.
4.) All ports are open by default by the standard Amazon security group policy that they provide. But it is recommended that you create your own of course.
5.) Yes Amazon distributes it with 2 vcores (I think it is. I haven’t check it in a while), and 1 GB of memory and maxium 30 GB of harddisk space (SSD).
Well my little criteria was to run our cron script app, (and test) from a little server outside our own server infrastructure with zero costs and Vultr isn’t free to my knowledge. So using a paid option breaks my idea.
I could of course use on of our own servers in-house, but the idea was to use one off-site.
No its not free, but testing is dirt cheap (charges per hour), something permanent will cost.
But it works well, not like aws by the looks
Scheduled execution of your websites and scripts.
Just in time or in flexible intervals, from minute-by-minute to once in a year.
Absolutely free.
Whats got to with the price of tea in china? Crons are free on virtualmin and nothing to do with the question.
Not quite right. The thread opener wants to operate web cron jobs for their other servers/web apps. So it’s a valid response. Why bother with a whole server setup when this sole task can be solved by a third party?
Sorry I reread the post and have no idea what crons have to do with PHP configuration.
The only mention of cron is by Cypher, sounds like someone try to pushing a unneeded product.
That is in-correct.
Cron-job.org is not 100 % free!
If you have special configuration needs as some features are only available in the paid version (they call it donation, but it is really premium version. (Custom timeout is not free for example).
Yes free for small needs and a few websites. If you have loads of websites you need to pay up front. We have been using them so we know all this 100%.
Because third party costs money and we might as well just do it in-house for free and save money.
But with that said what we’re going to do with our server and the CP has NOTHING do with our original question and that Virtualmin hangs/freezes during the installation process.
Doesn’t matter anymore though as we picked https://www.cloudpanel.io instead and installed it.
Works very good and is light weight.
But I thank you guys for your input. 
I’ll never understand this mentality. We’re talking about €1 per month.
Anyways, glad you figured your solution.
Off topic, this has nothing to do with the post
We pay way more than that for our services.
And with our cron app which is way better than theirs we get more value by doing it ourselves.
Indeed and quite irrelevant to the subject.
