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Oracle is really weird. Their cloud offerings at hobbyist level is vastly superior to any of the big clouds. Just objectively better. Yet they keep nuking hob
by Havoc 2y ago
Oracle is really weird.
Their cloud offerings at hobbyist level is vastly superior to any of the big clouds. Just objectively better.
Yet they keep nuking hobbyist accounts with little rhyme or reason as to who gets hit. So nobody builds anything remotely serious on it.
Congrats Oracle, you've managed to get the worst of both world: Incur the cost of free tier while ensuring future high value customers don't trust it.
- Timber-6539 2y agoMy experience is the opposite. Have used their forever free tier for 3 years now with no issue, no downtime, no drama.
- bityard 2y agoA lot of people confuse the free trial account that lets you use free tier resources with a pay-as-you-go account that only uses free tier resources. The former WILL eventually be terminated without notice, the latter usually does not unless you are doing something they see as suspicious. At any rate, I've had mine since the start of Covid Times and never had problems provisioning an instance.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoThis is anecdotal but virtually everyone I see getting excited about the free tier on Oracle is hoping to max out their usage in an exploitative way, though they likely don’t see it that way. I think in these situations you have to imagine what would be sustainable if every user did the same. If you exceed that, you’re probably going to meet some friction.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoThe thing is Oracle is closing accounts that don't use resources.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoCould this be because they’re allocating resources in a wasteful manner that they could allocate to potential customers?
- worthless-trash 2y agoCovid Times - Sounds like a great name for an early 2020's typeface.
- fuzztester 2y agoit was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
- coolspot 2y agoI had a pay-go account (with valid CC and OTP) for 4 years with an idle empty server and the whole account was terminated without recourse.
- benterix 2y ago> the latter usually does not unless you are doing something they see as suspicious. I used it as a gitlab server, it was regularly updated, there were no other services running. It wasn't even used intensively, maybe 2-3 pushes a day. And yet, one day they just closed everything. No suprise as everybody was warning me they would do it but still it felt very weird.
- osigurdson 2y agoOracle and hobbyist are two words combined that can't make sense
- chihuahua 2y agoAn Oracle hobbyist is someone who endures pain for pleasure.
- DeathArrow 2y agoLike a Rust programmer.
- osigurdson 2y agoI thought that was Java programmers.
- fuzztester 2y agoHence the well-known saying: An Oracle hobbyist is a (sad-o-)masochist ;)
- antod 2y agoComputer banks to rule the world.
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- paxys 2y agoNot superior, just more generous. And if they don't see you as a large corporate customer in line to sign a contract then they have no use for you on their platform.