Lemmy instance on oracle free tier?

scrubbles, 11 months ago

If it’s just for you, try it out, no harm no foul. If you are planning on hosting for other people then it’s way too volatile, people will depend on your service to get access to Lemmy

solidgrue, 11 months ago

Possible, yes. Oracle has a bad rep for deleting instances on their free tier though.

Edit to clarify: VM instances, not Lemmy instances specifically.

TCB13, 11 months ago

Oh yeah Oracle Cloud "Always-Free" aka the fastest way to lose all your data.

• https://armin.su/oracle-cloud-and-loss-of-data-in-kubernetes-cluster-198d88181829
• https://medium.com/@ShehuAwwal/dont-believe-oracle-cloud-free-tier-its-a-scam-1ac559aace95
• https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/13z8ogv/friendly_reminder_do_not_trust_oracle_cloud_if/

There are lots of people complaining about those situations.