I’m looking to host my own website and mess around with some services but my current home server is already pushed to the max. Planning on getting some thin clients for proxmox when I have some more money, but for now I wanted to mess around on Oracles free tier to test some stuff. I heard they will randomly delete accounts / free cloud vps and was wondering if there was a way to mitigate this. Some post I’ve seen seems to be tied to not having a CC on file with them so after 30 days or so when it “charges” your account and there is no payment option, the vps will get deleted. Does anyone have experience dealing with this? I wouldn’t mind adding a card to the account as long as I won’t wake up to a huge bill one day because I went over the limit.

  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have heard that they do this but in about 2 years of having mine and doing nothing out of the ordinary they have left it alone. There was even a decent chunk of time where it was just sitting there idle. I have heard people say that having a credit card on file helps but I have never had any form of payment on file nor ever purchased anything from them.

    These days I just have uptime kuma on it.

  • Kevin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You could setup a “temporary” card with Privacy.com and set the spending limit to something low. Your bank might also offer a similar service.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Man, I was paying Oracle and I still got my account deleted. And no, I wasn’t spamming or something similiar. In fact, I couldn’t even use SMTP for my own domain, they couldn’t seem to find my tenant ID in order to open the port, but they sure knew how to charge me for my usage.

    Oracle isn’t worth free.

  • apigban@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m running a PBS instance (plus networking containers) for 4years now, cc on file for the first 2 years, now on file, but my usecase is operating within the free-forever tier.

    My instance has not been deleted by them, though I’ve rebuilt the multiple times since.

    The region you are on might be struggling with capacity issues, I use middle east region and never encountered account/vm deletions (yet). For my case, latency isnt an issue so i dont mind having it ona far away region.