Certainly! As others have said, don’t hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they’re famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company.
Free is free though!
Comment on How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I did not realize they had a free tier, thanks!
starkzarn@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I haven’t had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that that in mind.
starkzarn@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Interesting. I’ve had two instances running for over 2 years and haven’t noticed that. It might be that I just don’t notice it though. I’m not scrutinizing it much.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not scrutinizing it much.
Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I’m ok with it.
I’m fairly sure it’s a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 weeks ago
I run my lemmy instance on their free tier, although I do have full account so I can expand for for full backups during upgrade, and also on the pure free tier I couldn’t get all 4 free cores at the closest DC
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
They’ve had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though.
You get a lot of resources for free, but don’t use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason.
30p87@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
mines crypto