That's very cool. I was going to get a hetzner for some hobby projects.
Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? For some reason, I'd be more cautious about putting my card into Oracle's offering than anyone else.
Can you get that without adding a payment mechanism? For some reason, I'd be more cautious about putting my card into Oracle's offering than anyone else.
No!
There are actually two free tiers.
The limited free tier you get without adding a CC and then this advanced "always free" tier I am using, where you have to use and verify a CC and have to pay big bucks if you mess up.
limited free tier: 300$ to be spent in 30 days
advanced always free tier: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
The big limitation is the 10mbit egress bandwidth, but you can work around that with (free) Cloudflare.