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by harwoodjp 1333 days ago
Cloudflare Pages and Workers (and similar products) are indeed great but I recently switched over to a plain old free tier Oracle Cloud VM with FastAPI behind Nginx (Docker containers). I use Cloudflare as a proxy for HTTPS/certs. I don't have to think about Cloudflare Worker limitations, can host a Postgres instance, and simply deploy through `git pull` and `docker-compose up`.
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But now Oracle has your financial information. I would rather give my Social Security number to a Nigerian prince.

There's a reason Larry Ellison owns an entire Hawaiian island, and it ain't nothin' nice...it ain't nothin' nice (#QTip)

Using Fly.io myself, behind Cloudflare. Free container hosting and free Postgres instance both big enough for my needs.
Fly.io is weird about overages:

https://github.com/superfly/docs/issues/382

It's tempting to use the Oracle free instance but I wouldn't use it for production cause I don't trust it will be free in the long term.