• xcaliber47@europe.pub
    41·
    3 days ago

    Hate to be the Devils advocate here, but Oracle is the only one (as far as i know) which provides a FREE usable server. FOREVER. Via OracleCloud

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      9·
      2 days ago

      Promise free cloud forever. Randomly delete it without recourse once people come to depend on it.

      Check: sounds pretty evil.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      And as usual from Oracle, it isn’t worth free. You better have a good backup, because they’ll shut that shit off on you without warning.

      • xcaliber47@europe.pub
        1·
        23 hours ago

        You can start the server again manually right? Because i am about to go for Oracle free forever server ( It is a Analytics server so i dont mind them deleting the entire server sometimes. And me manually starting it back up as soon as they do that. Also we have auto backup I just want a free server

        Will it work?

        • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Unfortunately deleted means deleted. Data gone.

          My recommendation is to use it as a reverse proxy to expose services but ultimately host from another device.

          It’s 1 gb of ram anyway (the free 24 gb of ram arm vps’ are scarce and hard to get).

          Another tip is that they monitor cpu and ram and are more likely to delete it if is idling. There exist programs on github that do nothing but waste cpu in order to try to keep the oracle vps up.

      • xcaliber47@europe.pub
        101·
        3 days ago

        As far as i know, yes. Forever. Only 1 cloud provider that gives free usable server FOREVER (until they eventually change their policy or something)