Anyone know what "1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each" translates to in processing power?

Fine for a personal hobby web server to try out nodejs on?

Its working just fine. Running some MySQL and Minecraft server without any problems.

And free 10TB of traffic...

What benchmark do you want me to run?

(Not `dd`. Something actually useful.)

None would make any sense to me. I'm working my way through freecodecamp and feel like starting to play with a server.

That's awesome.

Well, while it certainly looks (and feels) a bit like a cliché, I find myself recommending AWS for such a purpose. Common issues will be a single StackOverflow answer away. The platform (infra, byzantine pricing model) is at least well documented. The company has a reputation for making expensive honest accidents go away :).

This being said, exploration and _actually having to dive into something_ can provide insight and understanding that just doesn't get mentally registered when on the mainstream path (because it all just works).

And as another commenter said, you get 10TB of traffic. Which is hands-down insane. At 450Mbps too. (Boggles) (AWS is 1GB/mo, albeit at 1Gbit.)

I host quite a lot of stuff on those two VMs, works fine.

Thanks!

It is requiring giving Oracle credit card, right?

Because I heard horror stories about Oracle suddenly discovering that you did something that qualifies for extra-special-charge.

And I am not a major corporation that can easily pay major bill to another corporation.

("requires credit card" part is understandable to me, but I see no reason to trust Oracle given what I know about their approach)

Many years ago, Oracle bothered me by phone and email with the bills of a quasi-homonym in another continent, and I only had a developer account. So you don't even need to share billing details to have problems.

Credit card information is standard for fraud prevention.

It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.

I explicitly noted that I see why credit card are required, just that I am considering Oracle to be malicious and likely to be fraudulent.

> It’s impossible to breakout of the free tier and get charged for something.

Impossible in which sense? If they got my credit card info they can charge - and possibly justify it by convoluted rules.

And "Oracle promised something" is sadly not very credible.

They can't that's where your logic breaks down.

What are you basing this claim on? The reason I am not using any cloud trial that requires credit card is the chance of them driving me to bankruptcy.

Based on me using Oracle Free Tier since it was released. It is impossible to get charged for your use of the free services.

and free databases too forever