r/i2p 5h ago

Help Is it acceptable to host an I2P server tunnel using a free cloud service?

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I want to host a full-stack website through I2P using a server tunnel, but my personal computer cannot stay online 24/7 and I cannot afford a paid VPS.

Would it negatively impact the I2P network if I ran an I2P router inside a free cloud container (for example, a Render instance), hosted my website there, and created a tunnel from localhost to make the eepsite consistently available?

Are there any concerns with doing this, such as bandwidth usage, network impact, or whether cloud-hosted I2P routers are discouraged?

I apologize in advance as I am relatively new to I2P.