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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
Until it randomly gets removed without warning
FOREVER*
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)
Promise free cloud forever. Randomly delete it without recourse once people come to depend on it.
Check: sounds pretty evil.
Mmm saas is not forever nor are loss leaders.
They like to randomly delete them. It happened to me and a friend.
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?
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.
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.