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Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by pSYoniK »

angulardragon03 wrote: post #10
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.

I agree it can be fixed, it was more of a cautionary tale - you go ahead and set something up and 30 days down the line it's not responding. Depending on what you might've played with, you now have to start from scratch. I was using it to do a setup from scratch for a Wireguard VPN and being still early on I was going through things one at a time so didn't have any scripts setup to run the whole setup on a new machine. I had lost quite a bit of work - again; early days.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by pSYoniK »

fariszr wrote: post #9
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.…

You can recreate it, it's just the original VM you setup gets disabled, so it's about any services you had running on that particular VM. Sorry, I wasn't clear in my explanation.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by soperj »

fariszr wrote: post #8

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…

My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you're getting from them can't be worth it.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by nexle »

fariszr wrote: post #8

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…

Even non-free tier burstable VM is super cheap. For example, a VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD x86) with 1 OCPU (2 vCPU) and 4GB RAM with burstable baseline 50% is just ~$13.05/month (($0.025*50% + 4*$0.0015)*730hr). With baseline 12.5% it is just ~$6.66/month.

In comparison, AWS t3a.medium (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, burstable baseline 20%) will cost ~$27.45/month ($0.0376*730hr). DigitalOcean's 2vCPU 4GB Droplet will cost $24/month.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by pgm8705 »

fariszr wrote: post #8

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…

I agree. I have been using Oracle cloud for free for about a year now for a side project that is used in production with paying customers. I had my reservations at first, but figured it was worth a shot to save me the $15/month I was paying Digital Ocean. So far so good.

FWIW, I have a close family member who works for Oracle and they claim that they're sincerely trying to be developer/start-up friendly in hopes to gain traction in the cloud space. I get that the default is to assume there is always a hidden agenda with Oracle, but it is possible they're trying to show some good faith here.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

soperj wrote: post #13
fariszr wrote: post #8

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…

My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you're getting from them can't be worth it.

I've been using the free tier for two years and am yet to run into anything shady. Saved me countless bucks in the meantime (before arguing that it's like two seconds of work for you, remember that other countries do exist, and even something like DigitalOcean is pretty costly for many of us). Unlike many other free tiers you are not able to create any paid resources unless you opt in into the paid tier.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

pgm8705 wrote: post #15
fariszr wrote: post #8

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…

I agree. I have been using Oracle cloud for free for about a year now for a side project that is used in production with paying customers. I had my reservations at first, but figured it was worth a shot to save me the $15/month I was paying Digital Ocean. So far so good. FWIW, I have a close family member who works for Oracle and they claim that they're sincerely trying to be developer/start-up friendly in hopes to g…

There's no contradiction there. Of course they want to be developer+startup friendly in order to get traction in the cloud space. How else would they get more people to extort in the future?

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by tootie »

Algolia is a really nice platform, but they definitely nickel and dime you with the free tier. It says 10K free search "operations" which includes every type-ahead or any other API request. We hit our monthly limit with just bot traffic in 2 weeks.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by geekrax »

avgDev wrote: post #5
Etheryte wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It does mention GitHub pages under GitHub.
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