I tried getting some free ARM oracle servers a couple months back. I ended up setting up a whole PAYG setup, eventually got tired of trying to get their cloud to actually provision me any of these supposed free ARM systems, and have been a customer for a couple months now paying ~80/mo for the couple VPS's I've been playing with.

Speaking as an Oracle customer, let me heartily disrecommend them to everyone. Terrible experience.

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giancarlostoro 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Their reputation is what keeps me away from anything free of theirs.

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frollogaston 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks for saving me some time. I wanted a free little server in case my home RPi is down for whatever reason. Not surprised it's too good to be true.

	▲	wastedpotencial an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I've been on the free tier 1vCPU x86 / 1GB RAM for years and it was a perfect experience. I recently upgraded to the 4/24, and indeed you need to change to PAYG or otherwise it's out of capacity, but still no problem and within the free limits. For your use case, if the 1/1 instance is enough, I highly recommend Oracle and it's not something I imagined myself saying.