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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oracle free tier, 4arm cores, 200gb storage, 24gb ram, zero money's spent

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oracle is all fun and games until they lose your instance’s IP or data and don’t give it back because you’re a free tier freeloader.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That sounds like the bitter expression of regret and experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thats why you make backups and update the dns records 😎

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do enough of this in the day job. I don’t have time to mess around with free hosting to save $20 a month.

[–] pinkfootedgoose 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

true, i host services on my own infrastructure so i dont have to worry about that but for some people the free tier is worth the hassle :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I got a bunch of servers on OCI, but I'd never rely on it heavily without a backup plan or lack of attachment

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No catch? Especially with Oracle? Hard to believe kinda, nothing is ever "free".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a great deal, if you stay small, the idea is a loss leader, they temp you in and you set up your service, then when you need to scale up, they charge the extras.