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It's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.

I also have a couple of ARM servers there, nothing fancy. The internal networks and machine are extremely snappy for what they provide. Even the containers I threw in run great.

If you need small needs, it's a good provider. The dashboard is very convoluted, though.

> a crack dealer's free tier

Pretty sure GCP & AWS employ a lot of ex-Oracle people.

Not necessarily, use it for testing only (not production) and you will be fine.

I run a little kube cluster on it that serves as the brain for my home lab on it and it’s been cranking along just fine for the better part of half a year. It’s all IaC and ephemeral so if it died tomorrow I could just restart it. Quite generous for $0

Can you feasibly run a homelab C&C server on the free tier of any of the big 3?

It’s possible to run a single node cluster on GCP for almost free, especially if you’re creative with spot instance. But afaik, not really otherwise. OCI is far and away more generous, giving you 4 dedicated always on nodes, which is just enough to run a decent mini cluster

I know you're talking about the cloud offerings, but the idea of using just a little bit of crack as "not production" is hilarious to me.

Where do live that people are giving away crack?

Mines been running fine for years now

How much crack do you do a day?

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