Google Cloud Java hosting - Free Tier?

[ocean nymph]

Does anyone have experience with hosting on google cloud? I would like to host a personal discord bot that would only be in one server and only be used by me.

[willow forge]

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[slate vault]

The free tier is only a trial

IIRC you can use it for free for 90 days or something like that

[ocean nymph]

It's a bit confusing

[slate vault]

Oracle Cloud has a nice Always Free tier though

[slate vault]

what is confusing?

[ocean nymph]

let me find the line on the website

I still need to put billing data

for loops are going to be scary

[slate vault]

that literally sais only during the trial period

[ocean nymph]

Wait what

[slate vault]

you need to activate/press some upgrade button for that

[ocean nymph]

welp

nevermind

[slate vault]

second bullet point in the eligibility

[ocean nymph]

Do you know any alternatives? AWS has 12 month trial but that's about all I know

[slate vault]

Oracle Cloud

it has an Always Free tier

and that includes an ARM server

[ocean nymph]

Cool!

[slate vault]

you also have to provide credit card details (verification might result in a one-time charge of 10 cents or something like that) but they won't charge you unless you use the upgrade option

[ocean nymph]

I can do that

oracle sounds legit :D

[slate vault]

and ofc it's not a powerful server

[ocean nymph]

I just need to run commands like

/info
print: String

[slate vault]

I use it as a testing server

[ocean nymph]

It is mostly like stuff for easy copy

my school has a stupid email

[slate vault]

and I also run my own copy of @willow forge with it

[ocean nymph]

so I want to be able to do smth lkike /semail and get it in a this box

[slate vault]

But note one thing: if it's inactive for long enough, they might deactivate it

[ocean nymph]

I will use at least 1 command a day

[slate vault]

they calculate calculate inactivity using cpu/memory usage

[ocean nymph]

🤔 so I need more demanding commands?

[slate vault]

or something else

[ocean nymph]

alrighty

[slate vault]

and I feel like it sometimes hangs in weird ways where it doesn't react to anything

but that's probably my fault

[ocean nymph]

like it stops working randomly for a bit and comes back?

[slate vault]

not randomly

more like I do weird stuff it doesn't like

[ocean nymph]

:>

[slate vault]

like Ii think I was doing things that crashed the OS

[ocean nymph]

:>

[slate vault]

and then I had to forcefully stop it

[ocean nymph]

:>

When you stop a program it usually stops working

[slate vault]

I meant stopping the entire VM

[brittle anvil]

Does this applies same for aws

[slate vault]

because the whole VM doesn't react to anything

[ocean nymph]

this.what?

[brittle anvil]

Aws free trials

[ocean nymph]

What about it?

It's just a 12 month limited trial

[brittle anvil]

Does it stop on its own or I just checked they just keep piling bills without us knowing

[ocean nymph]

[ocean nymph]

Balance: $ -4658

[brittle anvil]

I did 2-3 hrs research on that I'm still scared to use it now

They giving me 20$ bill on create database only

[brittle anvil]

just for clicking on free tier