Oracle Cloud Reviews

Hosts a WordPress site on Oracle PAYG using only free-tier resources, with weekly boot volume backups.

Left a free ARM instance idle for over a year after a Minecraft server and it was never terminated.

More than a year on the free tier, never charged and rock solid, though they now keep serious off-site backups.

Free-tier availability was very low, then the account was closed without explanation and took a week of fighting support to reactivate.

Has run a free-tier VM with a Minecraft server and side projects for about two years without issues, apart from a Next.js exploit that planted a crypto miner.

Free ARM VPS that ran for a couple of years was suddenly shut down and only an upgrade would restore access.

Three years on Oracle's free tier hosting Uptime Kuma and beszel; paid the refundable verification so servers aren't deleted.

Very stable Oracle Ampere instances for 2+ years after converting to pay-as-you-go; better than Google's free tier.

Three years on Oracle's Always Free Arm instance with no gotchas, though they had to upgrade to a paid account to provision.

Two years with 4 free ARM and x86 instances and no problems, though speed from Vancouver to Toronto isn't great.

Uptime Kuma worked for over a year on a free VM, then requests started timing out and they moved providers.

A two-year-old account and VM were deleted right after asking support to change their home address, with no termination email.

Had a Minecraft server instance deleted within three months despite daily use and PAYG, and a replacement lasted under two weeks.

Free VMs are usually unavailable and, when granted, are randomly removed without clear reasons.

Has used Oracle's free ARM VM for a couple of years and finds it very stable.

Five years on Oracle free tier with no issues or downtime.

A free ARM instance has idled for three years, used only for the occasional VPN, without being terminated.

Uses an OCI instance with Pangolin tunneling to their home network and says it works flawlessly.

Two x86 free-tier instances more than five years old run 24/7, plus an Ampere one added about six months ago.

Same Ubuntu install on the free instance for almost four years, upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04 LTS, pretty solid.

Rock solid for four years after converting to PAYG, advising picking a home region with Ampere availability.

Has hosted a Minecraft server on the free tier for about three years without ever being charged.

Runs Pangolin and Netbird on it for a year and a half with no problems.

Two free servers split the resources, no issues for a few years, only about 8 cents a month for S3 overage.

The free instance works, but it was shut down once for being idle and getting it back took a while.

Rock solid for a few years, amazing if the workload runs on ARM.

More than six months on the free tier and solid.

About five years on the free tier with no issues.

Over a year using it as a TCP proxy to a home Traefik via Tailscale with few issues; getting an instance is the hard part.

From New Zealand, uses the Australian region for non-streaming workloads and a CGNAT workaround, and it works fantastically.

Runs 2 Debian VMs on Oracle's free tier for years without problems.

Their Always Free VM was deleted while they were on vacation with no explanation.

Oracle deleted their free instance without warning and the IPv6 setup is a convoluted 20-step process.

Uses Oracle's free VM for Tailscale VPN and occasional heavy tasks with no catches.

Minecraft server, WireGuard and proxy on Oracle's free tier for over 4 years with no problems.

Finds OCI very good in the Sydney and Melbourne regions, with adequate tooling and support.

Converted the free instance to pay-as-you-go three years ago; about $1.10 a month and no issues at all.

Their always-free Oracle Cloud account hosting a Minecraft server was deleted without warning, even after upgrading to pay-as-you-go.

Four years on a PAYG free-tier instance with no issues; runs Minecraft and a reverse proxy.

Runs availability monitoring and jumphost apps on Oracle Cloud's free tier with no issues despite restrictive networking.

Free Oracle ARM VPS running about 70 containers for a year without hassle.

Followed a guide to run a small Kubernetes cluster on Oracle Cloud's free tier and says it has run smoothly since.

With a couple of free accounts built a distributed K3s cluster over Tailscale with Gluster replication that worked flawlessly.

Hosts a website and a Tailscale exit node on two small free-tier VMs in Germany, running for years.

Runs a custom Debian Trixie image on the free ARM instance and calls it rock solid on minimal resources.

Oracle deleted their account for no stated reason.

Runs a Caddy and WireGuard reverse proxy on the Oracle free VPS to share Jellyfin from behind CGNAT; the stream is stable and they are happy.

Their account was banned after trying to upgrade to pay-as-you-go.

Oracle removed them from PAYG, claiming they only ran a Minecraft server.

Years on the 4-core 24GB ARM free instance running Immich with no issues.

Account was terminated without warning; they simply could not log in one day.

Their Oracle VPSs were terminated randomly and they woke up to all of them nuked.

They run two free-tier instances with uptime-kuma, no expenses for 2 years and no random termination.

They have used the Oracle free tier for over 18 months without problems, while keeping backups because it is free.

Their x86 Oracle Cloud VMs run a reverse proxy and a TURN server without issues, though they struggled for months to ever get the ARM instances.

Has run an aarch64 FreeBSD VM on the free tier for a couple of years; it is snappy even with the slower disk setting, and they got a fixed IPv4 address for free.

Same always-free instance for two years, but says you must keep RAM use above 90% to avoid reclaim, with an email warning a week before deletion.

Stayed within free limits for a cache server but lost access to the instance due to Oracle's own circumstances.

Oracle free-tier instance running WireGuard was flagged idle and slated for shutdown, so they moved to a paid host for stability.

They run free-tier x86 VMs on Oracle Cloud for folding at home, and those have been running for over a year.

Runs Caddy and SWAG alongside many containers on the free VMs without issues, with swap and low CPU load.

Their free-tier instance, used daily for 6-7 months for ERPNext, was deleted without warning and the data was lost.

Free tier was deleted, so they made a new one on pay-as-you-go and keep the bill at pennies.

Migrating sites off Lightsail, finds OCI hardware as good as AWS or GCP and tech support better than a couple of years ago.

Two idle free AMD instances were shut down after a week's notice, while the ARM instance with low activity was left alone.

Using the always-free tier since 2021 with no issues, though prepared to move to a home lab.

Two always-free instances running about a year as reverse proxies, pretty great.

Over a year on free tier with zero issues so far.

A site on an Oracle free-tier ARM VPS in Frankfurt has run almost a year with zero downtime.

Got the idle-reclaim email after two trouble-free years because their lightweight nginx site does not hit Oracle's CPU thresholds.