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You should know Oracle Cloud gives you a wicked always free package (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Realestaste@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

Instead of hosting at home, I've decided to go to the cloud and I LOVE the package you get with Oracle. You get enough computer hours for 2 amd based and 4 ARM based compute instances with generous network allocations.

Perfect for those of us who are just playing around with stuff and don't have a spare PC/Device :)

Hope this post helps someone have some fun!

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[–] ProfessionalHandJob@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They changed this always free tier previously.

Don’t believe anything they say because they will remove additional features. I guarantee it.

[–] Realestaste@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you reread my post its more for learning and playing with more hardware than you get with AWS.

I'm not suggestion people run critical services or data here

[–] ProfessionalHandJob@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue I have is they removed the ability to use a custom domain and DNS. Happened sometime between 2019 and 2021. I have an old pdf I made showing the long removed options.

That kneecapped the service for a lot of people years back. Without a way to access it externally, playing with hardware was no use.

[–] Realestaste@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is there any reason you couldn't just point a domain you own to the IP address of the instances?

For me its working and I serve the SSL certificate from the homer page or w/e

[–] ProfessionalHandJob@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn’t externally accessible after they removed the entire section from their gui.

Perhaps they added it back after people left. I tried again in 2021 and that wasn’t an option nor was internal IPs only after being able to do what you described previously.

But the point remains that they have changed their terms previously, and pray they don’t alter them any further.

[–] Realestaste@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

yeah idk maybe they changed it but i have an externally accessible IP where I can access my apps on different ports and I can point my domain to that IP with no problems. Homer has some functionality to serve the SSL cert and that is within the instance, it wouldn't matter if its a laptop at home or whichever cloud.

One thing you may have run into is that you have to open ports in the security group so if you didn't do that then its "not accessible"