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Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 hours ago by atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have no job, so the gift cards I have are prepaid and only have a few dollars on them. I should get a job soon, but in the meantime, I want to run my own Lemmy instance. I know this is probably a stupid question, but is there a way to do so? If I run it on just my computer, it'll shut down when my computer turns off, and there is an old computer my parents have but they won't let me use it because they don't wanna buy a new charger (The charger cord is broken)

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

and it never required

That's cool. I was thinking one of the free tiers like Amazon, Google required a CC to open one. Side question: What do you run on Oracle, and how fastidious do you have to be about controlling resource consumption? I've read about people on one of the free tiers getting socked a big bill, in fact it's a meme now.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I only run two instances, both run nginx and static HTML sites (plus all the stupid mandatory bits like fail2ban, python for ansible, certbot, etc. They are very low usage and get no seo or anything so they are really, really low usage.

I've never been warned about resources so far, and it's been 3 years. I intensionally don't run any high-bandwidth stuff like a matrix server or file sync for that reason.

I just lock it right down with keys and firewall entries for SSH. Logs are pretty quiet, except for llm scraping, but they are rate-limited, so they go away quickly.

Be aware that Oracle presents image "shapes" as the os images for use,which include oracle, Ubuntu, and a few others. These do have oracle metrics gathering and agents installed to help with migration between data centre zones, so it's conceivable that they can read what's on the os. I don't have any PII on there except public keys and my email address.