I’d like to really really caution people about Oracle Free Tier.
They’ve been known to suddenly ban free tier users, with no explanation or recourse. Happened to me and many others.
I had a lemmy instance on it, hadn’t started my backup plan yet cause I was dumb, and Oracle just emailed me that my “trial was over”, server immediately shut down, and support stonewalled me.
Couldn’t even get my data.
So if you want to try it, make sure you have a backup plan and a plan on what to do if they pull the plug.
Some have been using it for years, though. Just be ready.
I’ve been lucky to have no issues with them for over a year, but one thing I’ve noticed is everyone who has had issues has been running a VPN of some sort; were you maybe?
It’d be interesting to see if that’s whatever keeps causing the ban triggers.
I’d like to know too. I’ve been using the free tier for years now and hosted a bunch of different stuff on it (no VPN though) and never had any problems
Mine is about a year old as well. I’m also curious to know what triggers these bans. I also noticed people bringing up Minecraft servers on r/oraclecloud. I personally have a Valheim server running for months but I haven’t had any issues.
The plan isn’t to have any mission critical services on here. Mostly just to have a sandbox environment to test things out before I actually pull the plug on a reliable VPS service.
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I’d like to really really caution people about Oracle Free Tier.
They’ve been known to suddenly ban free tier users, with no explanation or recourse. Happened to me and many others. I had a lemmy instance on it, hadn’t started my backup plan yet cause I was dumb, and Oracle just emailed me that my “trial was over”, server immediately shut down, and support stonewalled me.
Couldn’t even get my data. So if you want to try it, make sure you have a backup plan and a plan on what to do if they pull the plug.
Some have been using it for years, though. Just be ready.
Yeah. Don’t use any Oracle product, ever, for any reason, for any length of time at all. They are absolute garbage.
It did seem hugely generous in terms of what you get.
I’ve been lucky to have no issues with them for over a year, but one thing I’ve noticed is everyone who has had issues has been running a VPN of some sort; were you maybe?
It’d be interesting to see if that’s whatever keeps causing the ban triggers.
I’d like to know too. I’ve been using the free tier for years now and hosted a bunch of different stuff on it (no VPN though) and never had any problems
Nope. Literally just Lemmy, signed up and administered while not behind a VPN
Mine is about a year old as well. I’m also curious to know what triggers these bans. I also noticed people bringing up Minecraft servers on r/oraclecloud. I personally have a Valheim server running for months but I haven’t had any issues.
Glad someone mentioned this already. It’s a nice sandbox or test environment but nothing prod will ever run there.
The plan isn’t to have any mission critical services on here. Mostly just to have a sandbox environment to test things out before I actually pull the plug on a reliable VPS service.
Thanks for the warning. Oracles got the worst reputation but I might have given em a shot if it cost me nothing.