Don't trust AWS free tier

Suggestions for alternatives?

may I suggest renting a VPS for a few bucks a month

@molaram have we reached the point where running a virtual machine with a highly sophisticated operating system counts as "bare metal"?

Oracle offer 2x "free tier" VM instances per account which have been useful for hosting simple projects for me, although it uses janky oracle db stuff

I've never paid a penny for them :) search for oracle cloud

Pay for a cheap VPS. Doesn't cost much, worth it for experimenting.

@LotsOfCaffeine @AlmondSauce Do you guys have any recommendation ? I'd like to configure my own mail server but couldn't host it locally as my IPS is shitty and alternatives are worse. But I don't know what are good providers and what prices to expect.

@pipe I've hosted with netcup before, they're based in Germany though so if you're not from europe...

been pretty happy with them, though I hosted with ovh before as well.

They just give you a server and an ip address so it's completely up to you what you put on there, whether it's a mail server, web server, some game server, a git server, etc...

@LotsOfCaffeine I've tried OVH before (but not for a VPS) and I wasn't very satisfied. I'll take a look at netcup, I live near a german limit so that's interesting. And a "bare metal" VPS is exactly what I want since I'd like to run a few experiments on it as well so that's nice.
Thanks :)

@pipe I see

if you do go for netcup, be warned: they are very resiliant when it comes to checking your identity. Iirc I received a phone call some time after booking for ensuring I was who I was, so it's not book and 10 minutes later you can ssh into it.

@LotsOfCaffeine Thanks for the advice, I'll know what to expect !

@drego Thank you. This is perfect for my use case!

Thanks for the answers, everyone. I'm looking into Oracle Could. the joke is I can run a faster better specced server myself but I can't guarantee as close to 100% uptime

@TheBeardedOne That's the main argument for hosted services : no hardware maintenance, 100% uptime (well, at least when there's no OVH datacenter burning...)

@pipe yea definitely. I'm thinking I'll probably self-host my projects and then use the Oracle servers as fall back, so if something does go wrong with my box it'll still work, if a bit slower

@TheBeardedOne That's one good idea !