Hello SelfHosted!

I have recently setup my own free tier oracle VPS and am looking to get my feet wet with some simple services that I can host on there to get started.

I should mention I have successfully setup SSH with the private key so that part is good to go.

Any ideas are welcome!

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’d like to really really caution people about Oracle Free Tier.

    They’ve been known to suddenly ban free tier users, with no explanation or recourse. Happened to me and many others. I had a lemmy instance on it, hadn’t started my backup plan yet cause I was dumb, and Oracle just emailed me that my “trial was over”, server immediately shut down, and support stonewalled me.

    Couldn’t even get my data. So if you want to try it, make sure you have a backup plan and a plan on what to do if they pull the plug.

    Some have been using it for years, though. Just be ready.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah. Don’t use any Oracle product, ever, for any reason, for any length of time at all. They are absolute garbage.

    • DunkinCoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Glad someone mentioned this already. It’s a nice sandbox or test environment but nothing prod will ever run there.

    • prlang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the warning. Oracles got the worst reputation but I might have given em a shot if it cost me nothing.

  • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Oracle a company to actively avoid doing business with or realying on in any way.

    Spend the $5 for a commodity VPS from literally any standard vendor. I suggest Vultr.

  • ijustlookatpictures@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Searx NG worked well for me. I currently have Matrix running on another, set up with the ansible docker repo. Actually trying to set lemmy up on another.

    I converted to pay as you go so they would open up the smtp ports so I could use postmoogle with Matrix but i still only use the always free shapes and still havent incurred a charge in roughly 6 months

  • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I use my Oracle free tier for Tor Snowflake. It was a service I didn’t really want to run myself and not something I ever need to connect to so if Oracle suddenly shuts down my server for any reason then it’s no loss for me. In the meantime it provides value for people in countries with harsh internet censorship, so I’m happy to just set it up and leave it.