You can probably get that for free at Amazon AWS for 750 hours a month, with a new account. That runs for 12 months.
Since you are on a thin budget, I recommend buying AWS credits on this forum to get you started. They are typically 50% off.
Amazon has a ton of hidden fees across all of their cloud computing services. Storing EC2 snapshots costs money, incoming data transfer costs money (and you're syncing a node so add 2 and 2 together) and also the IPv4 addresses themselves even have a cost. All these things are used when you create a new VPS there so you really have to be careful to stay within their free tier.
There are probably more AWS costs I've missed too. Maybe you should hit up @Vod, he's the resident AWS expert around here.