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Oracle OCI is one of the few cloud providers who'll actually give you two VMs for free, forever. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/clou

Oracle OCI is one of the few cloud providers who'll actually give you two VMs for free, forever. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ Could be worth checking out.

suyash 6y ago
and free databases too forever
austhrow743 6y ago
Anyone know what "1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each" translates to in processing power? Fine for a personal hobby web server to try out nodejs on?
- exikyut 6y ago
  What benchmark do you want me to run? (Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)
  - austhrow743 6y ago
    None would make any sense to me. I'm working my way through freecodecamp and feel like starting to play with a server.
    - exikyut 6y ago
      That's awesome. Well, while it certainly looks (and feels) a bit like a cliché, I find myself recommending AWS for such a purpose. Common issues will be a single StackOverflow answer away. The platform (infra, byzantine pricing model) is at least well documented. The company has a reputation for making expensive honest accidents go away :). This being said, exploration and _actually having to dive into something_ can provide insight and understanding that just doesn't get mentally registered when on the mainstream path (because it all just works). And as another commenter said, you get 10TB of traffic. Which is hands-down insane. At 450Mbps too. (Boggles) (AWS is 1GB/mo, albeit at 1Gbit.)
- scaladev 6y ago
  I host quite a lot of stuff on those two VMs, works fine.
  - austhrow743 6y ago
    Thanks!
- Madzen__ 6y ago
  Its perfect for a hobby web server! I am currently running one for myself. I will say it can be tricky to get the firewall correct with Ubuntu, I am using Centos 7 which seems better documented for their services.
- hansor 6y ago
  Its working just fine. Running some MySQL and Minecraft server without any problems. And free 10TB of traffic...
matkoniecz 6y ago
It is requiring giving Oracle credit card, right? Because I heard horror stories about Oracle suddenly discovering that you did something that qualifies for extra-special-charge. And I am not a major corporation that can easily pay major bill to another corporation. ("requires credit card" part is understandable to me, but I see no reason to trust Oracle given what I know about their approach)
- nojito 6y ago
  Credit card information is standard for fraud prevention. It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.
  - firstSpeaker 6y ago
    What are you basing this claim on? The reason I am not using any cloud trial that requires credit card is the chance of them driving me to bankruptcy.
    - nojito 6y ago
      Based on me using Oracle Free Tier since it was released. It is impossible to get charged for your use of the free services.
  - matkoniecz 6y ago
    I explicitly noted that I see why credit card are required, just that I am considering Oracle to be malicious and likely to be fraudulent. > It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something. Impossible in which sense? If they got my credit card info they can charge - and possibly justify it by convoluted rules. And "Oracle promised something" is sadly not very credible.
    - nojito 6y ago
      They can't that's where your logic breaks down.
- 6y ago

Oracle OCI is one of the few cloud providers who'll actually give you two VMs for free, forever. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ Could be worth checking out.

suyash 6y ago

and free databases too forever

austhrow743 6y ago

Anyone know what "1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each" translates to in processing power? Fine for a personal hobby web server to try out nodejs on?

exikyut 6y ago
What benchmark do you want me to run? (Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)
- austhrow743 6y ago
  None would make any sense to me. I'm working my way through freecodecamp and feel like starting to play with a server.
  - exikyut 6y ago
    That's awesome. Well, while it certainly looks (and feels) a bit like a cliché, I find myself recommending AWS for such a purpose. Common issues will be a single StackOverflow answer away. The platform (infra, byzantine pricing model) is at least well documented. The company has a reputation for making expensive honest accidents go away :). This being said, exploration and _actually having to dive into something_ can provide insight and understanding that just doesn't get mentally registered when on the mainstream path (because it all just works). And as another commenter said, you get 10TB of traffic. Which is hands-down insane. At 450Mbps too. (Boggles) (AWS is 1GB/mo, albeit at 1Gbit.)
scaladev 6y ago
I host quite a lot of stuff on those two VMs, works fine.
- austhrow743 6y ago
  Thanks!
Madzen__ 6y ago
Its perfect for a hobby web server! I am currently running one for myself. I will say it can be tricky to get the firewall correct with Ubuntu, I am using Centos 7 which seems better documented for their services.
hansor 6y ago
Its working just fine. Running some MySQL and Minecraft server without any problems. And free 10TB of traffic...

matkoniecz 6y ago

It is requiring giving Oracle credit card, right? Because I heard horror stories about Oracle suddenly discovering that you did something that qualifies for extra-special-charge. And I am not a major corporation that can easily pay major bill to another corporation. ("requires credit card" part is understandable to me, but I see no reason to trust Oracle given what I know about their approach)

nojito 6y ago
Credit card information is standard for fraud prevention. It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.
- firstSpeaker 6y ago
  What are you basing this claim on? The reason I am not using any cloud trial that requires credit card is the chance of them driving me to bankruptcy.
  - nojito 6y ago
    Based on me using Oracle Free Tier since it was released. It is impossible to get charged for your use of the free services.
- matkoniecz 6y ago
  I explicitly noted that I see why credit card are required, just that I am considering Oracle to be malicious and likely to be fraudulent. > It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something. Impossible in which sense? If they got my credit card info they can charge - and possibly justify it by convoluted rules. And "Oracle promised something" is sadly not very credible.
  - nojito 6y ago
    They can't that's where your logic breaks down.
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