Oracle Cloud came up with interesting “forever free” proposal.
As a result, you will get ARM instance with up to 24GB RAM. Should be good to run minor workloads like containers. Not a fan of OCI but getting it for free instead of paying 5-7$ a month? Can’t resist.
Pros:
- instance has decent performance
- most of the opensource software will work on ARM platform
- can server as software VPN hub for your needs (external IP included)
Cons:
- will still require Credit Card for registration
- won’t let you to store backups there
Using it for 2-3 months and very happy with performance. Today it hosts:
- influx
- grafana
- telegraf
- wireguard
- ip-sec-vpn-server