| | Name | Type | Lowest-Price Plan | Deploy |

| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |

| [](https://digitalocean.com) | AWS EC2 | VM | Free Tier, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM | [see guide](guides/aws-ec2.md) |

| [](https://digitalocean.com) | DigitalOcean | VM | $5/mo, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM | [see guide](guides/digitalocean.md) |

| [](https://vultr.com) | Vultr | VM | $3.50/mo, 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM | coming soon |

| [](https://linode.com) | Linode | VM | $5/mo, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM | [see guide](guides/linode.md) |

| [](https://heroku.com) | Heroku | Container | Free, 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM | [see guide](guides/heroku.md) |

| [](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/) | Azure App Service | Container | Free, 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM | [see guide](https://github.com/bpmct/code-server-azure) |

| [](https://coder.com/docs) | Coder | Dev Workspace | For developer teams 👨🏼‍💻 | [read the docs](https://coder.com/docs) |


[AWS EC2](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) is a popular way to manage and launch virtual machines. Here is a fast way to launch a code-server machine with AWS EC2:

1. Log into AWS and head over to the [EC2 dashboard](https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-2). Launch a new instance.

2. Use the "Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS" 64-bit (x86) Quick Start.

3. Choose `t2.micro` instance type or larger.

4. Click `Next: Configure Instance Details` to add the code-server script.

5. Under `User data`, copy & paste the [launch-code-server.sh](../deploy-vm/launch-code-server.sh) script.

6. Expand your storage, if necessary under the "Add Storage" section.

7. Under "Security Groups," ensure you have rows for "SSH" (:22) and "HTTP" (:80)

8. Add any SSH keys, if necessary, and launch the instance.

9. Once your instance starts, you can simply navigate to the public IP address and get forwarded to a secure version of code-server, which will be proxied behind your GitHub account (the first one you log in with). For information on how this works, see [code-server --link](https://github.com/cdr/code-server#cloud-program-%EF%B8%8F).

10. Optional: To change the URL in the address bar from `ip-[xxxx]` to something more descriptive, you just need to change your hostname and restart code-server:

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname bens-devbox

sudo systemctl restart code-server@coder