I've found OCI to be roughly on par with AWS for compute and networking. I've had the free tier account and corresponding instances for more than 5 years now w

I've found OCI to be roughly on par with AWS for compute and networking. I've had the free tier account and corresponding instances for more than 5 years now with zero issues. With that said, it's generally good advice to not count or rely on anything free for important things. Hence the motivation behind this story; Heroku used to be free and now it's evaporating away back into the ether. My only goal here is to provide helpful information. Cheers.