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Then you're just waiting around for the lawyers to figure out how to screw you - safer to just avoid it all together.

Are Oracle's lawyers really a concern for people? How can Oracle's lawyers screw you if you're simply using one of their VPS's?

Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514359

That's an insanely generous offer - they seemingly also let you split it up into 4VMs if you want. Any gotchas other than Oracle generally being icky?

I would seriously consider moving a couple small Linodes I use for work over that way. I quite like Linode, but free is compelling.

The block storage devices are HDD, not SSD. You have to pay extra for SSD storage.

That is a downside, though with 24GB of memory, there are certainly use cases where most everything is going to be cached in RAM anyways.

This is great - thanks very much for mentioning it. Creating an account now! ARM might be tricky but for zero dollars might be some fun.