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Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by microbass »

brnt wrote: post #28
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When you sign up with Oracle, you need to provider a CC. How can you guarantee that you're not accidentally opting in into any paid tier?

I signed up with a virtual Revolut card for sign up. Once my account was active, I deleted the card. They can't get any money out of me.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by brnt »

microbass wrote: post #31
brnt wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you sign up with Oracle, you need to provider a CC. How can you guarantee that you're not accidentally opting in into any paid tier?

I signed up with a virtual Revolut card for sign up. Once my account was active, I deleted the card. They can't get any money out of me.

Here that would not matter from a legal standpoint. They'd can and will get the money from you through small claims.

My question is: how can you be sure you're not billed, as the post I responded to implied, if you entered payment details?

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by WordAWarning »

microbass wrote: post #31
brnt wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you sign up with Oracle, you need to provider a CC. How can you guarantee that you're not accidentally opting in into any paid tier?

I signed up with a virtual Revolut card for sign up. Once my account was active, I deleted the card. They can't get any money out of me.

Oracle is not the kind of company you want to test with things like that.

Trust me, I've worked with Oracle. They'll assign sales assistants and lawyers to you. They'll chase you down for pennies. Doesn't matter if you actually owe the money, they'll get it.

They spent fourteen months chasing up me and my project manager for $220 that we didn't owe them. They just decided that we should pay it and they'll work out if we actually owe them anything afterwards. The credit card had expired years ago and we hadn't used their products at all since 2016. Doesn't matter, they still spent a year assigning more and more of their team.

Eventually we just paid because it was cheaper than letting them take our company to court. The time taken from me, my line manager, and the project manager answering calls/emails/letters probably added up to a lot lot more than $220.

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by getcrunk »

anonymousDan wrote: post #21

One thing I noticed after my initial experiments with serverless is that it is very hard to do basic development and testing locally (i.e. without potentially running the risk of a big bill). I would have thought there would be mocks of all major services that would permit you to do straightforward local development and testing.

So at least cloudflare wrangler cli let's you test serverless locally. And iirc Google firebase (db) has a local emulator

Re: Free Tiers and Resources for Developers

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Post by chrisshroba »

dan_quixote wrote: post #23
frankgrecojr wrote: post #16

Confluent has an amazing free tier that lets you use a hosted Kafka cluster for free.

The venn diagram intersection of projects that "use so little resources that free tier is feasible" and "need kafka" has to be vanishingly small...

Still cool as a learning tool!
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