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by andwaal 1572 days ago
Actually WTF, the Oracle always free seems ludacris. I have just moved a couple of my personal projects from DO to Fly because of their amazing free tire, but Oracle's is in a completely different dimention.
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thegeekpirate 1571 days ago
Be warned that they disable free accounts at random, and support will not respond to you. There's many threads in the subreddit about this, and it also happened to me personally.
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spiffytech 1572 days ago
The catch is they're Arm servers, so you'll have to check if that's a match for whatever you want to run.
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systemvoltage 1572 days ago
I have the same reaction. 4 vCPU + 24GB for free, WTF? I wonder what that's costing them.
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cosmie 1571 days ago
Plus 10TB of outbound bandwidth.

That's my favorite part of Oracle's always free tier[1], in comparison to other offerings.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

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hotpotamus 1571 days ago
Yep, I switched and got a buddy over to them as well. As far as what it's costing them, cloud hosting is a high margin business and it gets them on the map I suppose. I'm hesitant to do actual business with Oracle, but if they provide competent commodity cloud hosting for cheaper than the other guys, why not?
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oschvr 1572 days ago
What !! Always free ? I'll check it out
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