Wrong comm.
... or is it? Using Oracle non-ironically?
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OCI has a very generous free tier that doesn't even require credit card info. While for instance AWS has a free tier, the resources that are free are mostly the serverless stuff that only applies to their ecosystem, whereas OCI lets you use a significant amount of VM compute and even a decent amount of block storage. You can do a lot with it without ever paying a cent or having to learn OCI specific tech
Fair enough! While I do have problems with Oracle as a company that would prevent me from considering their services, my comment above this is just in jest about the post being in this community.
Not meaning to be seriously dismissive or judgmental of the question. I totally understand using whatever resources are available.
Oracle is like a sledge slope. But for Software. And the sledges break on the way.
I made a free forever server and it got deleted after 2 weeks. As part of the server running I scheduled a daily rsync backup to my NAS and provisioned it with terraform so I can build it quickly again.
Yes, if they delete it you can start a new one with no problem. Also, they only seem to delete unused ones, though.
Whenever you have it set up properly, make a system for you to easily spin up an identical one. Terraform, ansible, etc.
something i heard is that it's better to pay during the initial setup for getting the server located in an ideal location and cancelling the payment afterwards (?). just thought it might be helpful
I've had one running for years at this point. I got a month notice they'd be retiring the hardware it was on and I needed to restart it from the dashboard to migrate it, or it would automatically happen after the month. I had another one at one point that I had stopped running something in and forgotten to delete. They decided to delete it because it was inactive, but that warned me in advance.
I've been using a pay as you go plan (not the always free) for years and I've never had anything deleted. As it's still got all the always free stuff I've also never payed a cent. I believe it just removes the barrier to paying, but you can add quota limits just in case.
I have 3 instances running (offsite motioneye [arm], wordpress [arm], wstunnel [x86]), but I have daily backups to my home server and plans in place if they get deleted.