pleroma.debian.social

@be if you don't mind using Oracle, you can get free (as in beer), until they change contract, ARM64 VMs to a total capacity of 4 CPU cores, 24G of RAM, and 200G of storage. See this post for details: https://etbe.coker.com.au/2021/09/07/oracle-cloud-free-tier/

Also the first comment point to a table that summarizes offerings: https://gitlab.com/ptman/matrix-docs/-/tree/master/free-matrix-server#get-a-free-server

@be oh sorry I did look that you already got the suggestion on Oracle cloud. There is also https://www.hetzner.com/ you can look at: the cheapest VM give you 20 TB of traffic/month

@be I'm using it too for experiments, I installed pixelfed on one of the VMs. I did not deployed the other 3 in the "always free" plan yet, but a build server is something that I could try. I also have a 2 VMs on hetzner, but I took them when the cheapest was about 3€/month (they increased prices due to IPv4 shortage IIRC).

@be oh great, I have the same, but still on the old plan: it's about 3 euros month.

@be oh yes, I'm sure you can: they opened also a datacenter in US recently, so I think you will not have problem with payment.

@be I found the news: https://www.hetzner.com/news/11-21-usa-cloud/

@be oh sorry I forgot that! I was a bit upset too when I did it. I think they use it as an antispam mechanism! But I understand your concerns. I trusted them (some friends of mine already were using them, and KDE project used - or still use them). But I understand your concerns.
There is another hosting company that I never used, but if I remember correctly should be cheap: https://www.scaleway.com/en/ I was digging their site to look at the offers.

@josias good to know, but I will for sure tell in advance that they will ask for your ID. I don't remember if this happened to me also with Digital Ocean, since it seems that this was common in 2020¹ (my account is older). Anyway I for will not forgot anymore this issue.

¹ https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/1032456939991703553?lang=en

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