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oracle cloud free tier gives you two small instances with public ips

it’s not limited to 1 year like aws, they say it will be free forever

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

A lot of us dont trust them. They want credit cards and justifications and an approval process that seems like it is one of their con-fusion Enterprise apps. It's a hit or a miss especially if you want a machine in a geography that's not in the same region as your CC.

They don’t ask you for credit card details for their Free Tier version. I know because I’ve had that for over a year now.

In fact, their free tier is designed such that you only use free services. If you want to use their paid tier, you need to explicitly upgrade. I like that because that means I’ll never run into any unexpected charges.

I had to give a CC even for the free tier. Not sure if it some dark pattern that I could have skipped and on gone on to the next step. I filled everything in, nothing really came out of it other than an email or so but account details never turned up.

Let me check once again.

Ah yes, Oracle is definitely the kind of company that will honor a promise like that. /s

Also up to 4 ARM instances, with 4 cores and 24GB(!) of RAM to split between them.

Damn, this sounds too good to be true.

I'm already abusing (not really of course, I'm within limits) of my Heroku free tier and I had something running on Openshift until they removed the free tier.

It is true, I've been using them for one and a half years now and only one time I got an email that my instance had a few minutes of downtime due to an HW failure.

I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

"Small" is relative; you've got credits that allow you to have 4 cores and 24GB mem if you don't mind running on ARM.

Honestly, I'm just looking for something I can run Wireguard on to proxy my traffic. It doesn't matter if it's ARM or not, what really matters is the public IP (IPv6 would be super cool) and lots of bandwidth.

Hetzner. I have a similar setup for euro 2.5 per month. I dont think they offer it anymore. Now its about 3.50.

You can buy ip tunnel services like this: https://freerangecloud.com/products.php

You also need to meet with Larry in a dark alley and sign over your soul in perpetuity, but other than that it's a great service.

Edit: To the downvoters, have you ever been through an Oracle audit? I can tell you it's "bend you over and thoroughly check out your insides" invasive enough that I will literally never again willingly work with such a company.

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