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Never Oracle (ponder.cat)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's the problem with their "always free" virtual machines. Use too much, and they delete it for abuse. Use just a little, and they delete it for inactivity.

Those aren't free because Oracle is benevolent, but simply because probably they had a contract with Ampere to purchase millions of those arm server CPUs and they have vacancy

They're "free" in the hope that they will catch a whale: someone gets used to their infrastructure with a test, then spin more paid virtual machines

If in a specific datacenter, suddenly a whale is asking more resources, the free ones are getting the cut

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Ah but this guy said he was paying them, in this reply on Mastodon, and that in fact they didn't even stop the charge for next month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm kinda excited about my free tier. Gonna see what happens in the future.