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by jeroenhd 1482 days ago
They try to be the good guy. Their free tier is quite extensive (24GB of RAM, 4 ARM vCPUs and ±2 AMD cores, a several hundred GB of storage), good enough to run quite a decent personal cluster on, probably to lure in businesses for their AWS-style cloud services which are as ridiculously expensive as their competition.

However, just like AWS, Azure, and GCloud, their admin UI is complicated, slow, frustrating and full of invented acronyms and quirks.
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Beltalowda 1482 days ago
I've read various stories over the years about Oracle extremely aggressively pushing high bills because they think you're using the "free" version of MySQL or VirtualBox in a way that you're supposed to pay for it. I'd be very wary running anything "free" from Oracle (as in: I wouldn't).
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jeroenhd 1482 days ago
I had the same worries, but my Oracle account literally can't access any paid services. In fact, it's so bad that when your trial expires (you get some tryout credit) I couldn't even pay to continue operating if I wanted to, the resources had to be recreated from scratch!
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