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I have an Oracle Always Free VPS. 4 ARM Ampere A1 vCPUs, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage. Will this be a good fit as a server for a Lemmy instance? Are there any issues with hosting Lemmy on aarch64?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my experience the Oracle Always Free ARM A1 instances are really good. There's nothing I've really struggled to run on it personally, but I've never opened anything up to the public.

However, as @[email protected] said, Oracle tend to remove your instance without warning. You can mitigate this by "upgrading" to a paid account and adding your credit card info. As long as you stay within the free limits you'll never be charged - but of course it is a risk! And they might still pull the rug anyway...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should upgrade my account then. My bank allows me to generate internet credit cards with a money limit, which I can just set to 0 B)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They'll make an initial reservation of around $100 on the card, so don't set the limit to 0 right away.

The $100 is never charged, of course but you need the balance.