I was a little confused about the author of the article talking about running large resource free services. I signed up for an ‘always free’ Oracle Cloud accou

I was a little confused about the author of the article talking about running large resource free services. I signed up for an ‘always free’ Oracle Cloud account, and I have had a small 700MB VPS running for a very long time, never any problems. Admittedly, my CPU utilization probably averages down around 5%. Perhaps OC has an automated system in place to detect “greedy free users?” It probably makes very good economic sense for OC and GCP to provide one ‘always free’ micro VPS because when I need something larger for myself or a customer, it is natural to use their services because I am familiar with them.