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.
Comment on How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I did not realize they had a free tier, thanks!
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 days 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
starkzarn@infosec.pub 1 day ago
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!
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
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.