Comment on Does university email give you any free server?

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because it’s run by One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a bit of a bitch, and they can kill it at the drop of a hat.

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• WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because Oracle has the tendency to delete VMs without prior notice.

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  • axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you do something they don’t like, or generate way too much traffic

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This happened to our Minecraft server LOL

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On their ARM server you get something like 8 cores and 24GB of RAM. Honestly, that’ll run a hell of a lot more than an RSS server.

  I have one that’s running three different minecraft servers simultaneously.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On a more serious note.

  As you aren’t paying for the compute your stuff will be turned off when a paying customer wants capacity.
  All the cloud vendors do this Azure calls it Spot pricing

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