Here's a scenario I've been in too many times: I need to test something in a clean Linux environment. Not my laptop — a real server. And I need it for maybe two hours.My options used to be: It's $0.25. It lasts 24 hours. After that it's gone — automatically wiped, no lingering data, no grace period, nothing.I've used it four times now. Twice for testing deployment scripts against a fresh Debian install. Once to spin up a quick reverse proxy for something I was debugging. Once just because I wanted to see what Alpine Linux looks like when you actually have to configure it from scratch.The workflow is: order it, get SSH credentials in your inbox, do your thing, walk away. You don't have to delete it. You don't have to remember it exists. It costs less than a candy bar.If you've ever thought "I just need a throwaway server for a few hours" — this is exactly that. The fact that it auto-deletes is actually a feature, not a limitation. No cleanup. No accidentally running up charges. No orphaned droplets sitting around costing you $6/mo because you forgot.natbox.io, Burner plan, $0.25. I don't know why more hosting providers don't offer this. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. as well , this person and/or - Spin up a DigitalOcean droplet, forget to delete it, notice three weeks later that I've spent $18- Use a Docker container locally, except the whole point is testing how it behaves with real inbound traffic- Ask a friend if I can SSH into something (awkward)- Use some free tier that takes 15 minutes to provision and has weird restrictions- NATBox has a thing called a Burner VPS.