You pay in other ways.

You’ll spend hours upon hours trying to get a free spot. And like anything free it’s full of spam.

Your free server will likely have a blacklisted ip address.

Oracle is exceptionally frustrating to use in the first place. Pay the 5$ a month and use AWS or Digital Ocean

Thom2000 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Your free server will likely have a blacklisted ip address. > > Oracle is exceptionally frustrating to use in the first place. Pay the 5$ a month and use AWS or Digital Ocean

Funny thing that you mention this because according to Xenedra it's my DO IP that's blacklisted (even though I have it for years with no bad activities) but the free Oracle one is fine.

I was quite surprised by that.

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drdexebtjl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also apparently they will randomly terminate your instances if they think you’re not using them enough. Or if you’re using them too much. Can’t tell, it’s not transparent.

Also, their control plane is so poorly designed, it makes AWS Console feel like good UX.

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somenameforme 3 hours ago | parent [-]

In my situation they ended up randomly closing my account a week or so after it was setup. I'd tried a few times to get an instance, and failed. Then my login suddenly didn't work and their all so helpful customer support was 'yes your account has been closed' 'why' 'we can't tell you that.'

That was after my card and everything was already setup with the company. Oracle's reputation is 100% deserved.

	▲	Dimtree 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm in the same boat. I thought "how bad could it be, surely people are exaggerating" and signed up to check out their free tier. My account was killed without notice about a month after setup and I got the same treatment from support, they just instantly closed my ticket with "you account terminate." They did eventually notify me by email a full 60 days after actually deleting my VMs and the email had a little blurb with "it would be a pleasure to serve you in the near future" but I'm pretty sure they banned me from the platform permanently. Never trust Oracle. Using Oracle products professionally is tantamount to negligence. You will come to regret it eventually.