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Need some FREE Advice. From those who have used the Oracle Free Forever Server (self.programmer_humor)
submitted 5 months ago by xcaliber47 to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Hi, i am considering moving my project from aws to Oracle free forever server. (They offer 1 server for free forever). I know that they delete the server randomly sometimes. So we might sometimes lose all our data. Here is what i want to know, from those who have previously used Oracle Free Forever server:

  1. In my case it is a Analytics server. So i dont mind losing the current data sometimes
  2. It also have auto backup and stuff. Again dont mind if they randomly delete it

Can i manually re-create the server after they delete it? Also it will be free right? And like any other issues that i should be aware of? How often does this Random deletion of server happens?

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[โ€“] adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unrelated to your question, but do you get cost estimates while setting up the VM? I tried setting one up a while back but, despite picking all the free settings, it still estimated a cost of $2 per month. It never asked for CC info, but it still felt off.

[โ€“] xcaliber47 4 points 5 months ago

in AWS i do not. But i was in free plan and i checked every 2-3 days how much is my bill. I was using t2.micro with a elastic ip and it was always 0 Not sure about Oracle yet since i have not created the account yet. Will do in a few days