As an alternative to all the US products being suggested, let me suggest an EU alternative: Contabo.
Their cheapest offering (€4/month including tax) is more than enough for even the heavy web applications and their lowest storage tier will net you 300GiB to play with. The big downside is that networking is limited to 100Mbps, but for casual use that's not that big a deal in practice. That's plenty for a NextCloud instance, a matrix server, a bridge or two, a mail server and more with RAM to spare. The benefit of the classic VPS model over auto scaling cloud compute with a free tier is that a runaway script won't cost you a few hundred bucks if something goes wrong.
Their cheapest offering (€4/month including tax) is more than enough for even the heavy web applications and their lowest storage tier will net you 300GiB to play with. The big downside is that networking is limited to 100Mbps, but for casual use that's not that big a deal in practice. That's plenty for a NextCloud instance, a matrix server, a bridge or two, a mail server and more with RAM to spare. The benefit of the classic VPS model over auto scaling cloud compute with a free tier is that a runaway script won't cost you a few hundred bucks if something goes wrong.