Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud

Performance tip: block volumes performance is dependant on disk size (60 IOPS/GB and 480 KB/s/GB). If you’re using only one free vm you can allocate your 100GB of free storage to that vm to double the IO. It’ll speed rebuild times quite a bit.

A part of the definition is missing: Each OCPU corresponds to two hardware execution
threads, known as vCPUs.
That is, an OCPU is equivalent to two vCPU in other clouds (like DigitalOcean). Although of course in the case of the free service you don’t even get a full OCPU…

And a heads up of the Oracle TOS in case you hadn’t read it:
1.3 You may not, and may not cause or permit others to: … (b) perform
or disclose any benchmarking or availability testing of the Services;

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