▲ 48 ▼ How to Run Custom Linux Images on Oracle Free Tier (roguesecurity.dev) submitted 11 months ago by starkzarn@infosec.pub to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments Decided to write up a quick post on a hacky workaround I came up with for custom distros Oracle free tier and thought I'd share. Don't rely on Oracle, but definitely do leverage as much of their free compute as you can for non-critical workloads!
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 months ago (6 children) I did not realize they had a free tier, thanks! permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children) Certainly! As others have said, don't hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they're famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company. Free is free though! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children) I haven't had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that in mind. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) Interesting. I've had two instances running for over 2 years and haven't noticed that. It might be that I just don't notice it though. I'm not scrutinizing it much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago I'm not scrutinizing it much. Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it. I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region. permalink fedilink source parent [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 11 months ago They've had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though. You get a lot of resources for free, but don't use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 11 months ago I run my lemmy instance on their free tier, although I do have full account so I can expand for for full backups during upgrade, and also on the pure free tier I couldn't get all 4 free cores at the closest DC permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children) Certainly! As others have said, don't hang anything worth value on it without an out of band backup strategy, they're famous for unscrupulously deleting things with no warning. Oracle is a miserable company. Free is free though! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children) I haven't had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that in mind. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) Interesting. I've had two instances running for over 2 years and haven't noticed that. It might be that I just don't notice it though. I'm not scrutinizing it much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago I'm not scrutinizing it much. Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it. I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children) I haven't had my instances deleted, but they do some kind of maintenance blip everyday that my monitoring sees as 3 seconds of downtime, so maybe keep that in mind. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) Interesting. I've had two instances running for over 2 years and haven't noticed that. It might be that I just don't notice it though. I'm not scrutinizing it much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago I'm not scrutinizing it much. Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it. I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starkzarn@infosec.pub [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) Interesting. I've had two instances running for over 2 years and haven't noticed that. It might be that I just don't notice it though. I'm not scrutinizing it much. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago I'm not scrutinizing it much. Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it. I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago I'm not scrutinizing it much. Same. I just run a Minecraft server for my kid and his friends and a static HTML blog, so I'm ok with it. I'm fairly sure it's a background migration task, and I have a feeling it depends on your region. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 11 months ago They've had it for years. It can be difficult to sign up for though. You get a lot of resources for free, but don't use them for anything important. They can nuke your account for any reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 11 months ago I run my lemmy instance on their free tier, although I do have full account so I can expand for for full backups during upgrade, and also on the pure free tier I couldn't get all 4 free cores at the closest DC permalink fedilink source parent