When looking into VPS mining the huge thing is processor and how many cores. More cores = more mining.
Unless you have free power and a huge server with lot's of cores it's a waste of time, not to mention electricity. These free 1 core type stuff just is not good for mining.
Quite true for desktop and normal home computer mining. However, most of the time, the cores in VPS are shared. They merely display the amount of share that you can use in a VPS environment. Even if they say 1CPU core and the CPU is Xeon E3-1230V2, you may not literally get the whole core for yourself. If the provider oversells the VPS, the one core performance of that VPS and the performance of another VPS with similar advertised specs may differ. Furthermore, many VPS providers prohibit mining as they use up too much resources and reduce performance.Unless you have free power and a huge server with lot's of cores it's a waste of time, not to mention electricity. These free 1 core type stuff just is not good for mining.
Also with VPS some companies will shutdown your account if you use to much processor power. As a company they really don't want customers maxing out their VPS, they like customers who pay for well more then they use.
It's been a LONG time since mining with VPS was profitable. But at one time it was profitable and a fun time. I know digital ocean locked my account and wanted all kinds of info before they would unlock it. (They could have changed for better been a long time since then). But I had to jump through hoops to get it back. And it was all set off as I had a high usage on my VPS's.
Then there are some such as Amazon that really don't care as long as your paying. Never had a problem with them back then, but they were higher priced.
