Hello SelfHosted!

I have recently setup my own free tier oracle VPS and am looking to get my feet wet with some simple services that I can host on there to get started.

I should mention I have successfully setup SSH with the private key so that part is good to go.

Any ideas are welcome!

  • bdonvrAEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    I’d like to really really caution people about Oracle Free Tier.

    They’ve been known to suddenly ban free tier users, with no explanation or recourse. Happened to me and many others. I had a lemmy instance on it, hadn’t started my backup plan yet cause I was dumb, and Oracle just emailed me that my “trial was over”, server immediately shut down, and support stonewalled me.

    Couldn’t even get my data. So if you want to try it, make sure you have a backup plan and a plan on what to do if they pull the plug.

    Some have been using it for years, though. Just be ready.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      Yeah. Don’t use any Oracle product, ever, for any reason, for any length of time at all. They are absolute garbage.

      • bdonvrAEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        It did seem hugely generous in terms of what you get.

    • prlang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the warning. Oracles got the worst reputation but I might have given em a shot if it cost me nothing.

    • AverageGoob@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The plan isn’t to have any mission critical services on here. Mostly just to have a sandbox environment to test things out before I actually pull the plug on a reliable VPS service.

    • cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve been lucky to have no issues with them for over a year, but one thing I’ve noticed is everyone who has had issues has been running a VPN of some sort; were you maybe?

      It’d be interesting to see if that’s whatever keeps causing the ban triggers.

      • Helio@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’d like to know too. I’ve been using the free tier for years now and hosted a bunch of different stuff on it (no VPN though) and never had any problems

      • bdonvrAEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Nope. Literally just Lemmy, signed up and administered while not behind a VPN

      • ppp@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Mine is about a year old as well. I’m also curious to know what triggers these bans. I also noticed people bringing up Minecraft servers on r/oraclecloud. I personally have a Valheim server running for months but I haven’t had any issues.

    • DunkinCoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Glad someone mentioned this already. It’s a nice sandbox or test environment but nothing prod will ever run there.

  • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    2 years ago

    Oracle a company to actively avoid doing business with or realying on in any way.

    Spend the $5 for a commodity VPS from literally any standard vendor. I suggest Vultr.

      • Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.comEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        You mean Racknerd correct?

        They are great, I have a couple of servers with them (including the one that’s hosting my lemmy instance)

        • delcake@lemmy.songsforno.oneEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I snagged a couple of VPS from Racknerd in the Black Friday sale. One of them became a home for my Mastodon instance and now the other gets my new Lemmy instance. No issues to speak of with them yet, so I’m perfectly happy with 'em.

  • ijustlookatpictures@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Searx NG worked well for me. I currently have Matrix running on another, set up with the ansible docker repo. Actually trying to set lemmy up on another.

    I converted to pay as you go so they would open up the smtp ports so I could use postmoogle with Matrix but i still only use the always free shapes and still havent incurred a charge in roughly 6 months

  • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I use my Oracle free tier for Tor Snowflake. It was a service I didn’t really want to run myself and not something I ever need to connect to so if Oracle suddenly shuts down my server for any reason then it’s no loss for me. In the meantime it provides value for people in countries with harsh internet censorship, so I’m happy to just set it up and leave it.

    • StrayPizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      You can prevent this by adding a credit card to your account. It “upgrades” your status, and then as long as you stay in the free tier allocations you won’t be charged.