Not quite as cheap as $5 but I've been running at Hetzner CAX31 for a couple of years now and I run the following services / apps.

Actual Budget - https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

AirTrail - https://github.com/johanohly/AirTrail

Beszel - https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

Coder - https://github.com/coder/coder

Crowdsec - https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec

Dawarich - https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Dozzle - https://github.com/amir20/dozzle

Forgejo - https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

Forgejo runner - https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner

Grafana - https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Immich - https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Karakeeo - https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

KitchenOwl - https://github.com/tombursch/kitchen owl

Loki - https://github.com/grafana/loki

Matrix - Tuwunel (https://github.com/matrix-construct/tuwunel) and cinny (https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny)

memos - https://github.com/usememos/memos

Nourish - https://github.com/norish-recipes/norish

ntfy - https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

oauth2-proxy - https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

Outline - https://github.com/outline/outline

Paperless-ngx - https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Pingvin Share- https://github.com/stonith404/pingvin-share

Pixelfed - https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed

Pocket ID - https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id

Reitti - https://github.com/dedicatedcode/reitti

Signal CLI rest API - https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

Slink - https://github.com/andrii-kryvoviaz/slink

Ghost - personal music blog

Traefik - https://github.com/traefik/traefik

Umami - https://github.com/umami-software/umami

Uptime Kuma - https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Vikunja - https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja

wg-easy - https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy

ZeroByte - https://github.com/nicotsx/zerobyte

I used to run a couple of Hugo blogs but I've ended up moving them to bunny.