[anakaine]

Whilst I appreciate the comparison, it makes no sense for there to be a difference in the level of alerting, stability, security, safety, etc of a free/paid tier and a full production tier.

You can bet your bottom dollar I trial things on lower tiers, and much later on I may very well take the things I learned into production. My production budget isn't as big as some, but its still a tidy 6 figure sum each year just for cloud hosted services, with no licences or wages in that figure. If my trial on your platform goes tips up without notice, I'm going to likely conclude you're not a particularly safe place for my production stack for whatever it is I'm working on. You should also count on me telling my contemporaries about my experience too.

[Spunkie]

On the topic of their "free accounts", I did personally attempt to go through that process last month and I really don't understand how they have managed to fuck it up so bad.

The basic idea is simple, "give developers free personal resources so they might be inclined to start using your cloud for work related thing". Instead, the "free account" is basically just a guided tour on OCI incompetence before it boots you out onto the street.

On the surface they have given it some thought with setting up the system perfectly with the whole, "if your account is free you can never be charged thing" but they can't seem to stomach people actually using their "free account".