For many homelabbers, just being cheap and avoiding the $3 VPS, that's it

anon7000 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly, just today I set up a cloudflare tunnel to a docker compose service running on my home server. I didn’t want to expose the server directly to the internet, and I want to share this service on a certain domain with broader family.

I have a server at home that works well. I don’t reaaaally want to pay an extra $30-$40/yr and have an extra thing to manage when the CF tunnel works fine for free. I like Tailscale more, but I want to share this with family who won’t install TS and also want to use a specific domain.

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comrh 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I dont even pay anything, my tiny homelab is completely covered by the free tier

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kohbo 9 hours ago | parent [-]

What provider still has decent free tier?

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antonkochubey 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Oracle. 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD. It’s arm64 but nowadays that doesn’t really matter.

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Incipient 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That can't possibly be free?

	▲	jazzyjackson 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier... Only caveat I see is they reserve the right to delete underutilized/ idling instances
	▲	renewiltord 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That’s generous but Oracle is very generous.

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gear54rus 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which region were you able to create this in? They seem to be out of capacity all the time in EU.