Oracle OCI is one of the few cloud providers who'll actually give you two VMs for free, forever.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Could be worth checking out.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
Could be worth checking out.
Fine for a personal hobby web server to try out nodejs on?
(Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)
Well, while it certainly looks (and feels) a bit like a cliché, I find myself recommending AWS for such a purpose. Common issues will be a single StackOverflow answer away. The platform (infra, byzantine pricing model) is at least well documented. The company has a reputation for making expensive honest accidents go away :).
This being said, exploration and _actually having to dive into something_ can provide insight and understanding that just doesn't get mentally registered when on the mainstream path (because it all just works).
And as another commenter said, you get 10TB of traffic. Which is hands-down insane. At 450Mbps too. (Boggles) (AWS is 1GB/mo, albeit at 1Gbit.)
And free 10TB of traffic...
Because I heard horror stories about Oracle suddenly discovering that you did something that qualifies for extra-special-charge.
And I am not a major corporation that can easily pay major bill to another corporation.
("requires credit card" part is understandable to me, but I see no reason to trust Oracle given what I know about their approach)
It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.
> It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.
Impossible in which sense? If they got my credit card info they can charge - and possibly justify it by convoluted rules.
And "Oracle promised something" is sadly not very credible.