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I dont even pay anything, my tiny homelab is completely covered by the free tier

• kohbo 1y ago
  What provider still has decent free tier?
  • antonkochubey 1y ago
    Oracle. 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD. It’s arm64 but nowadays that doesn’t really matter.
    • gear54rus 1y ago
      Which region were you able to create this in? They seem to be out of capacity all the time in EU.
      • jnsaff2 1y ago
        I have read that you need to write a script to constantly bombard their API in order to get one. I presume you'd be fighting other scripts.
      • petronic 1y ago
        What worked for me was handing them a credit card and transitioning myself out of the free tier. (I'd use the free credits they offer prior to doing this - they give you something like $300 immediately on signup.) The always-free infra remains free, you just have the chance of incurring a bill if you make selections that aren't free or exceed block storage/egress (200GB/10TB) limits of the always-free tier. Leaving the free/trial tier gives you access to a much larger pool of instances. I never successfully deployed an A1 instance prior to becoming a "paying" customer - now I've done it hundreds of times without ever having an issue. I've been running a small k0s cluster and a standalone webserver for months while incurring about $2.50 - $3 in spending each month, primarily from being slow to remove instance snapshots sitting in block storage. Even things that are oddly expensive on AWS - like NAT - are free on Oracle. There are zero gotchas.
        • Peacefulz 1y ago
          I hit the same roadblock as the above user and it never occurred to me to just cross the barrier with cash and then scale back to free. Thanks for this.
          • elantile 1y ago
            It doesn't actually charge you anything. You just have to put a card down to be considered a priority because now you potentially can spend money & therefore are more important then the other free-tier losers. /s It's still free tier & still free. The free tier is also based on capcity usage, and not instances. If you want 3 cores on 1 machine & 1 on another, they're cool with that. I personally run Pangolin on a 1 core & self-hosted github runners on a 3 core.
    • Incipient 1y ago
      That can't possibly be free?
      • renewiltord 1y ago
        That’s generous but Oracle is very generous.
      • jazzyjackson 1y ago
        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... Only caveat I see is they reserve the right to delete underutilized/ idling instances
        • siwatanejo 1y ago
          I guess they require a credit card before accessing that free tier?
          • ranguna 1y ago
            If they do: create a virtual one, create an account with it and delete the card right after.
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            • ranguna 1y ago
              An honest advise being down-voted? Thanks
              • siwatanejo 1y ago
                I upvoted you.