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by seanlane 1558 days ago
For a good tunneling option, Oracle Cloud has always-free instances with 20TB/mo of outbound bandwidth.
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jffry 1558 days ago
Good luck actually provisioning such an instance though. At least for the past month I have been unable to actually provision one of the free-tier instances due to no available capacity in the regions I tried.
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eb0la 1558 days ago
Be careful with that! You can launch free tier instances anywhere you like in Oracle cloud, but unless they are in your home region, Oracle will charge you full price.
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seanlane 1557 days ago
I've never had problems launching out of San Jose, CA, which is the closest region to me, but I can't say I've tried others.
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Cyclenerd 1558 days ago
Sounded exciting. I looked it up right away. Seems to be only 10TB yet. But it is also great. Source: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free
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seanlane 1557 days ago
Dang, you're right. I know it used to be 20TB/mo, and you can find other references to it around the Internet. I wonder when it changed...
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mekster 1557 days ago
Unless they relicense zfs into GPL compatible one, I'm not going to touch Oracle products.

They're killing such a great innovation that no one can replace in the past 15 years and not likely for another 10 years.

But thanks to Ubuntu I can still use it with relative confidence.

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cute_boi 1558 days ago
Imagine, Oracle doing better than the current "BigTech"
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InvaderFizz 1558 days ago
If Larry wants to have one less yacht to subsidize me and compete with the big boys, count me in.

Oracle Cloud has serious issues around service and feature pairity, but if you can work around those, it's a lot cheaper.

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jl6 1558 days ago
What service issues are you referring to?
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