The Cost of Blogging

Re:The Cost of Blogging by dogline on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:08PM (#50385184)

Oracle use to offer a free compute instance in their cloud offerings. Still does, but people fight when they become available, and will write scripts to watch for them. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Digital Ocean has cheap servers too. AWS is always there, but costs more. You don't need much.

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Re:The Cost of Blogging by caminanteblanco on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:30PM (#50385420)

I mean if you switch to pay as you go you can get an Ampere server for free, with no wait. The wait is just for the always free tier. It's a $100 hold, but oracle's never charged me a dime. It is an insane deal, I'll never understand giving away 200gb of disk, 24gb or ram, and 4vcpus for free

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Re:The Cost of Blogging by dghlsakjg on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:36PM (#50385488)

They lowered the ram allowance. You might be paying for that now if you have the full 24gb provisioned

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Re:The Cost of Blogging by browningstreet on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:35PM (#50386134)

I lowered my RAM allocation on my Oracle Ampere server and it runs my Hermes Agent just fine. But yes, to get the free ampere server I had to put in a credit card for possible billing. But I've never been billed.

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