We’ll surely be saying the same exact thing in another 10-20 years 
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The original IBM PC was a bit over $1,500.00 in 1981. That is around $4,300.00 today.
Excuse the necroposting 
First real provider was thehostbusters.com - $8/mo for a shell running FreeBSD 4, with a whopping 100MB disk, 3 background processes & 200 connections.
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My first hosting provider ever was a shared hosting provider https://webzdarma.cz. They offered 200MB of space, PHP, MySQL and a third level domain, all for the price of one ad inserted in the page. That’s where I learned web development and that all inputs must be sanitized. That was like 10 years ago.
My first VPS provider was AWS 6 or 7 years ago . I used only one EC2 micro instance back then, which was enough for my small projects and a mail server. This was my first real experience with Linux on server and I think it was quite beneficial. There isn’t a better way to learn about open mail relays than getting an abuse report.
Nowadays I only use AWS for sending emails (Simple Email Service).
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