Hi, I'm just looking for a very cheap VPS to test forum scripts and CMS platforms. No production use. Requirements are minimal: 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, small SSD. Budget is around $5/month. Any location is fine. Can I trust Digitalcloud.pro vps hosting service?

Good cheap VPS options

1. Hetzner — Best for low-cost testing
Hetzner Cloud explicitly offers cost-optimized cloud servers for test environments, development, smaller projects, and private blogs.

2. DigitalOcean — Best for beginners
DigitalOcean Droplets start at $4/month for a basic Droplet. DigitalOcean also supports per-second billing, which is useful if you create and destroy servers for short testing periods.

For WordPress testing

I would start with:

1 vCPU
1–2 GB RAM
25–50 GB SSD
Ubuntu
WordPress + Nginx/Apache
Cloudflare if you need a temporary public domain

This is enough for testing WordPress themes, plugins, Elementor, custom CSS/JS, PHP changes, staging sites, and basic performance experiments.

My recommendation
Purpose   Choice
Cheapest testing   Hetzner
Beginner-friendly   DigitalOcean
WordPress development   1–2 GB RAM VPS
Temporary testing   Hourly/per-second VPS
Production website   Use a stronger/managed setup

Important: Don't use your testing VPS as your production server until you've tested backups, security, updates, SSL, database recovery, and performance.