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It's not a free offering; there is a free allowance. If you exceed that you get charged:

- Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs

- 3GB persistent volume storage (total)

- 160GB outbound data transfer

If you spin up, say, 4 VMs you will pay for it.

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I probably have to fiddle with the settings to stay within 3 CPUs, but since it was heavily recommended as an alternative to Heroku's free tier, I'm a bit disappointed I have to. Maybe they never intended to be recommended for that, don't know.

I haven't used it, but from what I know it's not a very good analogue to Heroku (other than being an easy-ish/dev-focused host). Their pricing model is pretty different

True, Heroku allowed as many dynos as you want when their free tier existed, however, they had a limit of 1,000 hours per month. That pretty much meant you couldn't run more than 1 VM (~744 hours/month) for free. Fly.io is more generous as those 3 free VMs can be up and running all the time (but VMs have 256MB of RAM instead of 512).

Right now the most generous free tier is from Oracle (24GB RAM machines feels unreal). But you can find other free tier offerings here: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

I tried to look at OCI but was immediately bamboozled with a slow as heck web site (locations table took 15 seconds to load!), a tonne of management BS about "aligning strategic objectives to operational constraints in a dynamic environment" and then was expected to immediately book a call with a salesperson.

No thanks Oracle even for 24GB free VMs!

Go to Oracle’s subreddit. It’s full of people whose free trial accounts were terminated.

"zombiefied" would be better description. Account exists but you don't have permission to do anything and you don't even have permission(lol) to upgrade to paid account

And you don't even have access to your data to backup or migrate.

They will yeet your machines without any info tho. I had test (smallest in free tier) VM that just got destroyed one day.

But that is not all

My account is now "inactive", with no option to activate it and with no option to even pay and upgrade to paid tier.

The account is in some broken state where half of the dialogues produce dialogues like "Authorization failed or requested resource not found", like I had account with permissions denied to everything.

Even the "upgrade to paid tier" option gives

> You do not have access to perform this operation. Please contact your cloud account administrator for additional access.

Utter fucking disgrace

On top of what other people said: capacity for the free tier machines is very limited. I wanted one to fool around with and it took multiple weeks of trying daily at varying times before I was able to actually allocate a VM.

The free tier is 256mb per vm (up to 3 VMs). You can't use or increase VM's memory to 512 or you will be charged.

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