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Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by avgDev »

Etheryte wrote: post #4
avgDev wrote: post #3

I'm surprised GitPages are not in the web hosting section, it is an extremely popular option for hosting static pages?

Did you mean Github Pages? Git is to Github roughly like mp3 is to Bandcamp or jpg is to Imgur, they're not the same thing.

I did mean GitHub Pages, thought it was called GitPages.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by pSYoniK »

Just posting it here as well (have done so before), but beware the Oracle Cloud one. I've had tons of issues getting my account deleted, it's been more than a year and I'm still having to raise tickets and go back and forth.

The resources are nice and they can easily run a small page or be useful to try out hosting things, deploying apps and general server maintenance/deployment/etc. However, anything you will be running on them shouldn't be essential to you. For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

The entire platform is also unnecessarily convoluted, but I'd argue that's the case with most of these cloud providers - felt the same way trying AWS for a project and I feel the same way every day using Azure. However, out of these offerings, Oracle's is the most generous free one, just keep in mind it's just that - free. So you do get what you pay for.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by fariszr »

Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier.

Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it.

As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab, Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its an unnecessary complications that doesn't exist on GitHub.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by fariszr »

pSYoniK wrote: post #6

Just posting it here as well (have done so before), but beware the Oracle Cloud one. I've had tons of issues getting my account deleted, it's been more than a year and I'm still having to raise tickets and go back and forth. The resources are nice and they can easily run a small page or be useful to try out hosting things, deploying apps and general server maintenance/deployment/etc. However, anything you will be run…

> For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

I tried this, and it will worked, so I'm not really sure. I recreated the VM anyway just to be safe.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by angulardragon03 »

pSYoniK wrote: post #6

Just posting it here as well (have done so before), but beware the Oracle Cloud one. I've had tons of issues getting my account deleted, it's been more than a year and I'm still having to raise tickets and go back and forth. The resources are nice and they can easily run a small page or be useful to try out hosting things, deploying apps and general server maintenance/deployment/etc. However, anything you will be run…

It’s a bit convoluted with the VM getting disabled a month in (and very annoying), but the fix is pretty easy. You can delete the old VM (keeping the boot disk), and recreate it with the original boot disk. New public IP address will be assigned, but after that you won’t have issues. I’ve been running my instance for almost a solid year without issues since the month trial ended.
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