Hi, i am considering moving my project from aws to Oracle free forever server. (They offer 1 server for free forever). I know that they delete the server randomly sometimes. So we might sometimes lose all our data. Here is what i want to know, from those who have previously used Oracle Free Forever server:

  1. In my case it is a Analytics server. So i dont mind losing the current data sometimes
  2. It also have auto backup and stuff. Again dont mind if they randomly delete it

Can i manually re-create the server after they delete it? Also it will be free right? And like any other issues that i should be aware of? How often does this Random deletion of server happens?

    • Feyd@programming.dev
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      46 minutes ago

      OCI has a very generous free tier that doesn’t even require credit card info. While for instance AWS has a free tier, the resources that are free are mostly the serverless stuff that only applies to their ecosystem, whereas OCI lets you use a significant amount of VM compute and even a decent amount of block storage. You can do a lot with it without ever paying a cent or having to learn OCI specific tech

  • adhocfungus@midwest.social
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Unrelated to your question, but do you get cost estimates while setting up the VM? I tried setting one up a while back but, despite picking all the free settings, it still estimated a cost of $2 per month. It never asked for CC info, but it still felt off.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Yes, if they delete it you can start a new one with no problem. Also, they only seem to delete unused ones, though.

    Whenever you have it set up properly, make a system for you to easily spin up an identical one. Terraform, ansible, etc.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    3·
    4 hours ago

    something i heard is that it’s better to pay during the initial setup for getting the server located in an ideal location and cancelling the payment afterwards (?). just thought it might be helpful

  • thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I made a free forever server and it got deleted after 2 weeks. As part of the server running I scheduled a daily rsync backup to my NAS and provisioned it with terraform so I can build it quickly again.

  • Feyd@programming.dev
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve had one running for years at this point. I got a month notice they’d be retiring the hardware it was on and I needed to restart it from the dashboard to migrate it, or it would automatically happen after the month. I had another one at one point that I had stopped running something in and forgotten to delete. They decided to delete it because it was inactive, but that warned me in advance.