The GitHub method is unbeatable at one thing: costing zero rupees today. But free charges in other currencies — your time, your files, and the safety of your GitHub account. This page does the honest maths for the moment your need stops being an experiment and becomes a routine.
Neither answer is always right. For a student testing something twice a month, a VPS bill is a waste. For anyone running daily work on a machine that deletes itself, the free method is the expensive option wearing a cheap disguise. Four questions decide it — answer them honestly and the choice makes itself.
👆 If any one of these is a genuine need, the free method has already lost — the only question left is which paid or own-PC route replaces it.
The free method is the rational choice while all of this is true: you use it a few times a month, for learning, testing and following tutorials; nothing needs to survive a session; nobody else depends on it; and remaking the setup each time costs you minutes you enjoy spending. In that territory, paying monthly for a server would be buying uptime you do not need. The method was worth a video precisely because this territory is real and wide.
Entry Windows VPS plans from common providers typically land in the range of a few hundred to about a thousand rupees a month for 2 to 4 GB of RAM, usually with the Windows licence included in the plan. For that you get the four deciders above: always on, persistent disk, a fixed address, and an account that is yours and cannot be taken for misuse of someone else's CI platform. Put beside it the real price list of 'free': up to 6 hours at a stretch, a rebuild every session, a new address every day, and a GitHub account — possibly holding your code and your sign-ins — permanently at risk. The VPS is frequently the cheaper line on that page.
Before renting anything, check whether the machine you truly need is one you already own. If a PC at home or in the office can simply stay on, then Tailscale gives you 24x7 remote access to it with no static IP and no monthly bill — the setup Technical Anshu demonstrates in his no-static-IP video. That route beats both options on this page for the commonest need of all, 'my computer, from elsewhere'. A VPS earns its money only when no machine of yours can stay on, or when the desktop must live in the cloud for people in several places.
Watch the free method in the video, run your own four questions from this page, and choose with the full picture.
▶️ Watch Full VideoUsually one of two: your own always-on PC reached through Tailscale, at zero monthly cost — or a 2 to 4 GB RAM Windows VPS from a known provider for a few hundred rupees a month. Both keep your files, stay on, and put no third-party account at risk.
It will install and run — inside a session that is wiped at 6 hours, on a use GitHub's terms prohibit, where a single bad morning erases the setup. Daily business software is the clearest 'pay now' case on this page; the software deserves a machine that exists tomorrow.
Many offer trial credit, a money-back window, or a cheap first month. Use it properly: install your exact software, work the way you really work for a few days, and only then commit — the same test-first habit the free method teaches, applied to the paid decision.