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Don't trust AWS free tier

Suggestions for alternatives?

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    may I suggest renting a VPS for a few bucks a month
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    @molaram have we reached the point where running a virtual machine with a highly sophisticated operating system counts as "bare metal"?
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    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
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    Pay for a cheap VPS. Doesn't cost much, worth it for experimenting.
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    @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.
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    @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...
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    @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 :)
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    @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.
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    @LotsOfCaffeine Thanks for the advice, I'll know what to expect !
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    @drego Thank you. This is perfect for my use case!
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    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
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    @TheBeardedOne That's the main argument for hosted services : no hardware maintenance, 100% uptime (well, at least when there's no OVH datacenter burning...)
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    @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
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    @TheBeardedOne That's one good idea !
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