Oracle cloud has the most generous free tier ever. I've got a 24GB ram VPS on it that I have run a minecraft server on for the last year. Never paid a dollar for it.
Yes, and they’re notorious for rejecting credit cards. They can also shut down your machines at any time if paying users want more capacity. I moved off after they killed my machine and caused me to lose a bunch of data because I couldn’t spin up another (capacity full)
@quinnypig's tone[1] wears on me a bit. I don't mean that in judgement, we all suffer from followers disease[2]. I just don't like the effort of having to parse through the tone of everything to figure out what's actually going on.
For instance, here, the original B2B tech company, still turning over billions upon billions, wouldn't provide the base unit of B2B tech?
Really?
Interrobang of surprise at that?
I don't think so. You'd have to be very young and made 0 effort into ex. checking IBM's business metrics over the course of your lifetime.
[1] my current standard for this is "how long would you feel people were talking about your efforts accurately, if they talked the same way you do?" -- standards are leaky and hard to word.
[2] The Algorithm has multiple tentacles, you end optimizing for your most engaging behavior