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Hey it's free, so I'm not complaining (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by LostXOR@fedia.io to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] bonn2@lemm.ee 76 points 2 months ago

Where did you find a free server that is that good? Or is it just one of those 100$ free credit things?

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 86 points 2 months ago

They are for sure talking about the ARM servers from Oracle. You get 24gb of memory and 4 cpu cores that you can carve into virtual machines.

Issue is that the free stock is very limited, and there have been some claims of people having their free service resources reclaimed by Oracle.

Still, if you can get one, it is probably the best you can get for free.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 41 points 2 months ago

Yep, it's Oracle. It's a really great deal; I've been using their services for a couple years now and haven't had any problems.

[-] Dima@lemmy.one 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Make sure you have backups, they randomly shut mine down after a couple of years

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

Yep, it's all backed up locally. I figure eventually they'll shut it down as they're losing a fair bit of money.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

sure it wasn't related to the server center that caught on fire due to an UPS update?

[-] Dima@lemmy.one 14 points 2 months ago

They disabled my account without any notice, I tried to login to see why my VM wasn't responding and found they'd deactivated Oracle cloud services. It's also difficult to get in touch with support as there's multiple different portals and with the cloud services disabled I struggled to find a way to raise a relevant ticket. When they eventually responded they gave some generic BS about their ToS.

My suggestion for anyone using Oracle free tier is stay on it if you want, but be prepared for the eventuality that they shut everything down without notice or access to your data.