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You should know Oracle Cloud gives you a wicked always free package (alien.top)
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https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

Instead of hosting at home, I've decided to go to the cloud and I LOVE the package you get with Oracle. You get enough computer hours for 2 amd based and 4 ARM based compute instances with generous network allocations.

Perfect for those of us who are just playing around with stuff and don't have a spare PC/Device :)

Hope this post helps someone have some fun!

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IMHO, there is no such thing as "the cloud." All your doing is using other people's computers. The history of the Internet is littered with the corpses of once "free" and low-cost services.

IMHO, self-hosting means running my own services, storing and processing my own data, on my own LAN and servers. It's about minimizing my reliance on third-party service providers to avoid the vagaries and price shell games they play, while restricting access to my PII and staying in control of my data. I don't do it because it's easier or cheaper, because it's usually not. I do it because I believe I'm better off for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Perfect for those of us who are just playing around with stuff and don't have a spare PC/Device :)

right and you shouldn't run critical stuff on other peoples hardware unless you are down pat with security, DR and HA concepts but this post was really aimed at people who just want something free to play around with and learn with