I haven't looked at it, but I want to get away from managing (pet) VMs. I want something that is fully git-opsed, and git-opsing VMs is a lot of work. It's much easier to string together a bunch of AWS resources via CloudFormation (or Terraform, although I'm less familiar), and then I can stand it up or tear it down whenever I want.
Linux VM for $3.50/month: 512 MB RAM, 1 processor core, 20 GB SSD, 1 TB/month outgoing transfer. For $5/month: 1 GB RAM, 1 processor core, 40 GB SSD, 2 TB/month outgoing transfer.
Should be enough for a hobby blog, especially if static.
They have images for Amazon Linux, two Ubuntu versions, two Debian versions, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, and CentOS.
They also have a few images with various things preinstalled and preconfigured: WordPress; Joomla; Drupal; Django.