[pSYoniK]

Just posting it here as well (have done so before), but beware the Oracle Cloud one. I've had tons of issues getting my account deleted, it's been more than a year and I'm still having to raise tickets and go back and forth.

The resources are nice and they can easily run a small page or be useful to try out hosting things, deploying apps and general server maintenance/deployment/etc. However, anything you will be running on them shouldn't be essential to you. For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

The entire platform is also unnecessarily convoluted, but I'd argue that's the case with most of these cloud providers - felt the same way trying AWS for a project and I feel the same way every day using Azure. However, out of these offerings, Oracle's is the most generous free one, just keep in mind it's just that - free. So you do get what you pay for.

[angulardragon03]

It’s a bit convoluted with the VM getting disabled a month in (and very annoying), but the fix is pretty easy. You can delete the old VM (keeping the boot disk), and recreate it with the original boot disk. New public IP address will be assigned, but after that you won’t have issues. I’ve been running my instance for almost a solid year without issues since the month trial ended.

[pSYoniK]

I agree it can be fixed, it was more of a cautionary tale - you go ahead and set something up and 30 days down the line it's not responding. Depending on what you might've played with, you now have to start from scratch. I was using it to do a setup from scratch for a Wireguard VPN and being still early on I was going through things one at a time so didn't have any scripts setup to run the whole setup on a new machine. I had lost quite a bit of work - again; early days.

[fariszr]

> For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

I tried this, and it will worked, so I'm not really sure. I recreated the VM anyway just to be safe.

[pSYoniK]

You can recreate it, it's just the original VM you setup gets disabled, so it's about any services you had running on that particular VM. Sorry, I wasn't clear in my explanation.