Just to add to your comment:
As much as I hate oracle, I run their free-tier vps in a Canadian datacenter and it never required my cc. I think it’s geographic location-dependent.
Just to add to your comment:
As much as I hate oracle, I run their free-tier vps in a Canadian datacenter and it never required my cc. I think it’s geographic location-dependent.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s cool. I was thinking one of the free tiers like Amazon, Google required a CC to open one. Side question: What do you run on Oracle, and how fastidious do you have to be about controlling resource consumption? I’ve read about people on one of the free tiers getting socked a big bill, in fact it’s a meme now.
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non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I only run two instances, both run nginx and static HTML sites (plus all the stupid mandatory bits like fail2ban, python for ansible, certbot, etc. They are very low usage and get no seo or anything so they are really, really low usage.
I’ve never been warned about resources so far, and it’s been 3 years. I intensionally don’t run any high-bandwidth stuff like a matrix server or file sync for that reason.
I just lock it right down with keys and firewall entries for SSH. Logs are pretty quiet, except for llm scraping, but they are rate-limited, so they go away quickly.
Be aware that Oracle presents image “shapes” as the os images for use,which include oracle, Ubuntu, and a few others. These do have oracle metrics gathering and agents installed to help with migration between data centre zones, so it’s conceivable that they can read what’s on the os. I don’t have any PII on there except public keys and my email address.