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by re-thc 1081 days ago
> but judging from their enterprise products that sounds like the grossest possible thing to run a personal project on...

Maybe not the best way to judge? i.e. based on impression of other products?

People run personal projects on AWS etc.

Oracle cloud is also a lot better priced than the big 3.
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isoprophlex 1081 days ago
AWS is by all means a legit cloud provider, one of the big three. You know what you are getting in to, and the skill/knowledge required is transferable to your dayjob.

Now when I read "oracle cloud", my thoughts immediately go to their horrible, gross way of doing business in DB land. Pay outrageous amounts of money for poorly specced machinery, the "you are not allowed to benchmark us" snafu, poor docs, no open source mindshare to speak of/terrible community. And I personally hate their sql dialect but that's me.

Then, you apply this feeling of grossness on the idea of them being your cloud provider. One that at the moment is not dominant, so learning how to navigate and use it is probably not that useful for your career right now. And one with, for me, a pretty shit-tier branding.

All in all I'm not surprised to learn they have a very generous free tier to lure people in.

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re-thc 1081 days ago
> AWS is by all means a legit cloud provider, one of the big three. You know what you are getting in to, and the skill/knowledge required is transferable to your dayjob.

> Now when I read "oracle cloud", my thoughts immediately go to their horrible, gross way of doing business in DB land.

And you don't think about issues with Amazon the ecommerce provider? Lots of complaints there. How do you treat that separately? Every provider has their pros and cons.

Oracle cloud is currently the fastest growing cloud provider and catching on to be the top 4(?). The skills/knowledge is likely transferable too.

Oracle the database at its time was good. There were likely some shady practices, but it was actually a good database for large enterprise that needed it. Your only other choice(s) included SQL Server from Microsoft and it didn't perform as well. I can't claim I like it either but it wasn't useless.

> All in all I'm not surprised to learn they have a very generous free tier to lure people in.

All in all - let go of your bias as it clearly impacts how you view things. Most of it is sentiment and based on some opinion or hype. Lots of companies have shady practices in 1 way or another - some are well known and others are nicely hidden. In large companies not every product or department is the same either.

As an engineer and to live up to that name - I rather operate on stats and facts. Perhaps Oracle cloud is less reliable, not as well documented or have other problems - that's all fine, but not that its "gross". What does that even mean? Will it stink if I login to it?

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