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Two related questions not answered in this article: - Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fa

Two related questions not answered in this article: - Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fast Linux/VNC desktop (which will chew a lot of bandwidth), and want bandwidth left over to actually do things with. - There's no mention of Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
> Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this. It's Oracle; wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
- awill 7y ago
  hm.. I looked into this. I do agree to not touch Oracle, but free is free, right? What's the worst case? They turn it off or are unreliable?
  - Kwpolska 7y ago
    You try to install Java on your Oracle VPS, and some time later, you end up with a nastygram from their lawyers in your mailbox.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    The worst case is probably that their "free" service has fine print that results in their lawyers handing you a large bill, probably by making it easy for you to accidentally use paid features. (Precedent: VirtualBox extensions)
InvaderFizz 7y ago
I'm quite happy with their free tier. I have two Ubuntu machines hosting various docker images. Network bandwidth seems capped at around 50mbps, but that is perfectly adequate for my needs. CPU is quite strong, it's two AMD Zen vCPUs. The compile times for a few of my containers was acceptable. Three downsides: -No reverse DNS (at least I couldn't get it to work) -No IPv6 -It's Oracle, I made sure I only used personal info and would never consider it for work purposes.
- indigodaddy 7y ago
  Free public (static?) IP too?
  - InvaderFizz 7y ago
    Yes. Instances keep their public IPs for the instance lifecycle. The IP is not reserved though, it is attached to that instance. So if you destroy that instance and spin up a new one, you won't have that IP anymore.
    - indigodaddy 7y ago
      Cool, you also said appears to be capped at 50Mbps, however if you use the LB, might be more like 10Mbps ? (according to the free tier description at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#free-cloud-trial https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#free-cloud-trial)
Youden 7y ago
Linode and Vultr are both KVM-based and both have low cost offerings in Sydney with reasonable amounts of bandwidth (>1TB). Linode even has GPU instances, though they're extremely expensive (you'd really want to only turn it on while you're using it).
josephb 7y ago
In addition to Linode, Vultr, OVH, there are some local home grown "equivalents" Binarylane and Quantum Core, they both have a presence in Sydney, with the former having locations in other cities in AU, BNE, MEL, PER.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

> Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this. It's Oracle; wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

awill 7y ago
hm.. I looked into this. I do agree to not touch Oracle, but free is free, right? What's the worst case? They turn it off or are unreliable?
- Kwpolska 7y ago
  You try to install Java on your Oracle VPS, and some time later, you end up with a nastygram from their lawyers in your mailbox.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  The worst case is probably that their "free" service has fine print that results in their lawyers handing you a large bill, probably by making it easy for you to accidentally use paid features. (Precedent: VirtualBox extensions)

InvaderFizz 7y ago

I'm quite happy with their free tier. I have two Ubuntu machines hosting various docker images. Network bandwidth seems capped at around 50mbps, but that is perfectly adequate for my needs. CPU is quite strong, it's two AMD Zen vCPUs. The compile times for a few of my containers was acceptable. Three downsides: -No reverse DNS (at least I couldn't get it to work) -No IPv6 -It's Oracle, I made sure I only used personal info and would never consider it for work purposes.

indigodaddy 7y ago
Free public (static?) IP too?
- InvaderFizz 7y ago
  Yes. Instances keep their public IPs for the instance lifecycle. The IP is not reserved though, it is attached to that instance. So if you destroy that instance and spin up a new one, you won't have that IP anymore.
  - indigodaddy 7y ago
    Cool, you also said appears to be capped at 50Mbps, however if you use the LB, might be more like 10Mbps ? (according to the free tier description at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#free-cloud-trial https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#free-cloud-trial)

Youden 7y ago

Linode and Vultr are both KVM-based and both have low cost offerings in Sydney with reasonable amounts of bandwidth (>1TB). Linode even has GPU instances, though they're extremely expensive (you'd really want to only turn it on while you're using it).

josephb 7y ago

In addition to Linode, Vultr, OVH, there are some local home grown "equivalents" Binarylane and Quantum Core, they both have a presence in Sydney, with the former having locations in other cities in AU, BNE, MEL, PER.