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Hello SelfHosted!

I have recently setup my own free tier oracle VPS and am looking to get my feet wet with some simple services that I can host on there to get started.

I should mention I have successfully setup SSH with the private key so that part is good to go.

Any ideas are welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just FYI Oracle has language that reserves the right to shut down free tier machines that they deem “idle”.

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm

[–] StrayPizza 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can prevent this by adding a credit card to your account. It “upgrades” your status, and then as long as you stay in the free tier allocations you won’t be charged.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man I would be so nervous to trust Oracle with my credit card though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do https://privacy.com then! Can set it to like $10 limit in case they charge a tiny bit to test the card and you'll never spend more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do a $100 test charge IIRC when upgrading to their PAYG (pay-as-you-go) tier. They also don't like virtual/prepaid CCs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah that is unfortunate.