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andwaal | 4 years ago

Actually WTF, the Oracle always free seems ludacris. I have just moved a couple of my personal projects from DO to Fly because of their amazing free tire, but Oracle's is in a completely different dimention.

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thegeekpirate|4 years ago

Be warned that they disable free accounts at random, and support will not respond to you. There's many threads in the subreddit about this, and it also happened to me personally.

spiffytech|4 years ago

The catch is they're Arm servers, so you'll have to check if that's a match for whatever you want to run.

systemvoltage|4 years ago

I have the same reaction. 4 vCPU + 24GB for free, WTF? I wonder what that's costing them.

cosmie|4 years ago

Plus 10TB of outbound bandwidth.

That's my favorite part of Oracle's always free tier[1], in comparison to other offerings.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

hotpotamus|4 years ago

Yep, I switched and got a buddy over to them as well. As far as what it's costing them, cloud hosting is a high margin business and it gets them on the map I suppose. I'm hesitant to do actual business with Oracle, but if they provide competent commodity cloud hosting for cheaper than the other guys, why not?

oschvr|4 years ago

What !! Always free ? I'll check it out