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.

    • 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.

    • 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.