Lot of sales for 4th of july (and ongoing ones) where you can pay $10-$14 for a YEAR of a small cheap VPS. Usually only has 1GB of memory, but that’s plenty to play around with and learn. If nothing else, a good cheap ipv4 you can use for some port forwarding. There are lots of options, but I’ve used racknerd and ethernetservers which have been fine.
I have my own server at home, but I bought two small ones to start learning Ansible with in a risk free way. Eventually plan to redo my main server with a complete Ansible setup, really want to hop on that “infrastructure as code” train.
Get a free oracle cloud account. 24GB RAM 200GB disk 4 core CPU for free. 5gbps connection, IPv4 and 6. I run all of my stuff that I want running outside of my house there and run everything else on my proxmox cluster.
Friends don’t let friends use Oracle.
I’ve seen a few comments from people who’ve had their Oracle free tier accounts deleted with no warning.
As someone who once had to work with Oracle databases and licensing as a part of their job, i will never willingly use another Oracle product.
Problem is Oracle sometimes just hates people, so declines all attempts to get the Free Tier.
I know from experience
