{"id":94,"date":"2022-11-15T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:20:12","slug":"free-internet-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/free-internet-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Internet Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I happened across <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NKc3k7xceT8\">a YouTube video<\/a> about the &#8220;Always Free&#8221; virtual servers that Oracle makes available in the Oracle Cloud.  <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/en-us\/iaas\/Content\/FreeTier\/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm\">This offer<\/a> provides a collection of ARM and AMD resources that can be configured in various ways to make up a set of virtual machines.  Of most interest to me was the ability to configure an Ubuntu Linux VM with 4 ARM CPUs, 24 GB RAM, and 200 GB storage.  For free.  Now that&#8217;s useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoting their documentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>All\u00a0Oracle Cloud Infrastructure\u00a0accounts (whether free or paid) have a set of resources that are free of charge for the life of the account. These resources display the\u00a0Always Free\u00a0label in the\u00a0Console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the&nbsp;Always Free&nbsp;resources, you can provision a&nbsp;virtual machine (VM) instance, an&nbsp;Oracle&nbsp;Autonomous Database, and the networking, load balancing, and storage resources needed to support the applications that you want to build. With these resources, you can do things like run small-scale applications or perform proof-of-concept testing.<\/p>\n<cite>From https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/en-us\/iaas\/Content\/FreeTier\/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The video linked above walks you through the setup process.  Worked fine for me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle is giving away internet server VMs, one per customer, perpetually free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux-administration","eq-blocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/free-vps-hosting-trial.png?fit=347%2C249&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}