I'm just learning and working on building a little website with a couple of friends that won't get all that much traffic... Does a SQL DB from Microsoft really cost hundreds of dollars a month!? Wowzas!

I'm just wanted to built an ASP.Net Core 2.0 website for a local group that I run. My Azure trial is going to expire soon...

I don't mind spending a few bucks a month, if I have to. I was going to try to host at home on my Raspberry Pi, but I was running into some other issues getting that fully up and running and thought it might be better to host it elsewhere. Or maybe I go back to my Raspberry Pi if I want free...