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Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Post by vjerancrnjak » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 7:31 PM UTC

seszett wrote: post #27

vjerancrnjak wrote: post #22

I can’t even register an account at Oracle. I’ve tried many things and their 3rd party check refuses to consider me a good actor.

I contacted them by email and was eventually able to create an account. Had to contact them again at another point where their system once again checks for something with a credit card and again rejected me. I can't remember exactly for what. It worked eventually and I use the free tier server for small things, but of course it means I can't ever consider using their service for anything serious.

Yes, I sent them an email, I tried 3 debit cards and a credit card over a span of 1 year. They told me they cannot resolve the issue or process the transaction. They refused to provide any extra information.

I quit trying.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Post by TiredOfLife » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 10:37 PM UTC

crtasm wrote: post #53

christina97 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.

Do you need anywhere near that much to run nextcloud?

Nextcloud is not exactly known for being fast and not needing lots of memory.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Post by TiredOfLife » Sun, Oct 06, 2024, 10:44 PM UTC

IMcD23 wrote: post #60

immibis wrote: post #3

Note that Oracle free instances may be deleted at any time for no reason.

From what I've seen, there's actually two different levels of free tier. There's the one where you make an account and don't give them your payment info, and are on a free trial (availability of Ampere servers is severely limited in this, and they deactivate your account if you don't sign in often enough or use the servers you create), and the other where you give them payment information and set up a real account an…

When signing up for free tier the first month is actually a trial. After 30 days trial ends and you are downgraded to free tier. That causes the VMs to be destroyed. BUT! The storage with data stays and you simply recreate the VMs attach the disks and and everything continues to work.

Another possibility is that Oracle wants the machines to be used. So a simple `stress -c 1` in a screen is enough.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Post by OutOfHere » Mon, Oct 07, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #59

OutOfHere wrote: post #45

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Yes, some paid ones that encrypt the data and have been in business for many years. They're not publicly listed in the stock market, and so they don't have to put up with the self-destructing demands of shareholders

Interesting, you're certainly more brave than me :) One of the places I used for backups been around for 2 decades, I still wouldn't trust them enough to store my only copy of something.

I use mirroring and version control for the most important files, just not for files that I can possibly do without, but yes, it would be good to have.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Post by zx8080 » Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #49

zx8080 wrote: post #44

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I would not trust OVH anything which not ephemeral, as there were couple of quite interesting incidents [0] in the last years. 0 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...

This is a bit alarmist. They are one of the biggest web hosts in the world, whole companies run on their servers and cloud without issues. Accidents happen and you always need to have backups, ideally in another DC.

No, it's not.

They burned down two DCs, by the way. I advise to read analysis first as it shows utter blatant negligence when planning their DCs to reduce cooling costs, note the air tonnel effect "EcoRoom" design (at least the two DCs that burned down, but not limited to them), and operational issues like firefighters inability to turn off the AC, so they just stand there watching the firestorm.

Nice place! Host your servers, sure!

It's the most catastrophic DC fire ever.