Oracle is wildly inconsistent and I'm still not sure if I like their offering or if I hate it. The good: - My page runs on the 1 AMD VM and it has been workin

Oracle is wildly inconsistent and I'm still not sure if I like their offering or if I hate it. The good: - My page runs on the 1 AMD VM and it has been working fine for a few months. - The VM is faster than the equivalent Github/Gitlab Pages offering and I have way more control. - Using the ARM VMs under one hood gives a lot of performance and I setup a VM to migrate data from one rclone crypt remote to another crypt remote (which meant that the VM had to download the data and then upload which was brutally slow on my connection). - It's great to be able to test out some things on a machine and not have to pay for it and I would gladly pay for more VMs if not for the bad... The bad: - I had issues activating my initial trial and it took a bit of back and forth to get it running because their fraud prevention system kept blocking me - The ARM VMs aren't 100% free, but you get free VM time. Which means that after the 1st month trial, the VMs actually get suspended or put on hold, despite you not using up your allowance. I had a Bookstackapp instance running on one and I find one morning not being able to log in. After fiddling about and trying to figure out what to do, I decided to restore my backup on to a new VM but I never felt that these are reliable after that incident - The entire management interface is hugely complex and lots of parts are hidden unnecessarily (try to find how to raise and ticket and then after a while, try to go and find where your incident is and where you can check its status...) - You can't seem to get an old account deleted... I had messaged sales, support and a few others. I asked for help on Twitter as well, but while I got I think two emails about "your account is now deleted" I could still log in with that old account. But they DID suspend access to always free resources on that account... So I have this old account hovering, which was made to see what they offered and I could never reactive it to use that one and support suggested that the easiest way would be to make a new one. - Their Oracle Agent/Resource Monitor is really resource intensive and it's one of the first things I recommend removing - Their iptable rules are also quite restrictive and it's at the top of the list for things to remove when setting up a new vm So, I believe I had mentioned this before, but you do get what you pay for. I still recommend them for anything that's not critical or that important and for someone wanting to dip their toes in managing a VPS and some other considerations, but otherwise pay for what you use and go for something that's simple, proven to work and reliable if all you're looking for is VPSes (Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner (although yesterday's post about someone losing data and getting 20 euros wasn't that positive), OVH, ServerCheap, etc).