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That's very cool. I was going to get a hetzner for some hobby projects. Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? For some reason, I'd be more cauti

by jeswin 1y ago

That's very cool. I was going to get a hetzner for some hobby projects. Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? For some reason, I'd be more cautious about putting my card into Oracle's offering than anyone else.

Traubenfuchs 1y ago
> Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? No! There are actually two free tiers. The limited free tier you get without adding a CC and then this advanced "always free" tier I am using, where you have to use and verify a CC and have to pay big bucks if you mess up. limited free tier: 300$ to be spent in 30 days advanced always free tier: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
- jeswin 1y ago
  Messing up with Oracle is a bit different from messing up with Google. I'll go with Hetzner which I love anyway. :)
- liendolucas 1y ago
  So it's free... Until is not. My take on this would be that if Oracle makes any change to that "free" tier and you do not take proper action you might be automatically charged hefty amounts from your credit card. No, thanks. It's way way safer to spend few bucks a month in other VPS options than get a big surprise on your credit card.
  - Eliezer 1y ago
    Privacy.com has always been a working general solution to this, for me. Disposable CC aliases with spending caps.
    - overfeed 1y ago
      Privacy.com won't provide lawyers to you when Oracle sends letters of demand to you for unpaid invoices.
  - pjc50 1y ago
    I know Oracle are notorious for scummy license enforcement, but in practice their Always Free tier is superior to Amazon's precisely because they will cut off your service rather than bill you arbitrary (huge) amounts. The big limitation is the 10mbit egress bandwidth, but you can work around that with (free) Cloudflare.

by jeswin 1y ago

Traubenfuchs 1y ago

> Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? No! There are actually two free tiers. The limited free tier you get without adding a CC and then this advanced "always free" tier I am using, where you have to use and verify a CC and have to pay big bucks if you mess up. limited free tier: 300$ to be spent in 30 days advanced always free tier: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

jeswin 1y ago
Messing up with Oracle is a bit different from messing up with Google. I'll go with Hetzner which I love anyway. :)
liendolucas 1y ago
So it's free... Until is not. My take on this would be that if Oracle makes any change to that "free" tier and you do not take proper action you might be automatically charged hefty amounts from your credit card. No, thanks. It's way way safer to spend few bucks a month in other VPS options than get a big surprise on your credit card.
- Eliezer 1y ago
  Privacy.com has always been a working general solution to this, for me. Disposable CC aliases with spending caps.
  - overfeed 1y ago
    Privacy.com won't provide lawyers to you when Oracle sends letters of demand to you for unpaid invoices.
- pjc50 1y ago
  I know Oracle are notorious for scummy license enforcement, but in practice their Always Free tier is superior to Amazon's precisely because they will cut off your service rather than bill you arbitrary (huge) amounts. The big limitation is the 10mbit egress bandwidth, but you can work around that with (free) Cloudflare.