David Gomes shared a request from Filipe Cabaco asking for low-cost cloud providers that can run Firecracker VMs since macOS offers poor local support. Filipe named Hetzner Online as an initial candidate and asked the community for additional inexpensive providers or practical alternatives to experiment with Firecracker.
Filipe Cabaco (@filipecabaco) asked on 2026-07-18 for recommendations for a low-cost service provider to try Firecracker because macOS has limited support for running it locally.
Please help my friend Filipe!
Filipe Cabaco (@filipecabaco)
what is the best service provider to try out firecracker? macos as no good way of running it from what I understood so looking for something on the cheap side to try out ideas
@Hetzner_Online seems to be the quickest way but wondering what exists in this space
— https://nitter.net/filipecabaco/status/2078452479553839287#m