Re:AWS free tier data transfer expansion
by berns on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:19PM
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Bear in mind that premier support is included for free for cloud customers. So for example ksplice and dtrace are included. Ksplice is fantastic and it's really worth it.
Re:AWS free tier data transfer expansion
by xfer on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:37PM
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I also have an arm machine hosted, good if you want to compile stuff, but the networking has been super flaky and unreliable.
I would definitely not call their service nice, when quite often you can't login because network issues. Also their separate identity(legacy stuff)/cloud service dashboard was also confusing.
Re:AWS free tier data transfer expansion
by immibis on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:24PM
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People have reported having their Oracle servers shut down without warning for the horrendous crime of... running IRC servers.
Re:AWS free tier data transfer expansion
by Karunamon on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:08PM
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That's not an uncommon clause in terms of service; IRC servers tend to be DDoS magnets. Other common nonos are game servers and streaming hosts.
Hosting is one of those things you really ought to spend 10 minutes reading and find out what you are and are not allowed to do. It's basic due dilligence when you're renting someone else's hardware and bandwidth.
But I still don't run anything important on it or push the limits of the free tier. Oracle doesn't have a good reputation. Also "Oracle Unbreakable Linux" is literally just RHEL rebranded, but it's not a community project and they don't like to acknowledge it so it feels particularly shameless; especially since they are selling "support" for it.