I don't work for Google.

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

I don't work for Google. I'm but a voluntary product customer. But if they could offer me a way to get away from them, I'd gladly take it.

Right now I'm moving my personal domain over to cloudflare and email to mxroute. Considering setting up some calendar and similar groupware stuff on kubernetes on Oracles free tier as well.

That's the other rub...if I want to cloud host anything, I get to choose between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Alibaba. Wonderful selection we have there.

(I recognize there are smaller players out there like linode and ovh and a trillion VPS providers...only reason I'm considering Oracle is because they give so much free "forever". And kubernetes is fun for me in like a jigsaw kind of way. Not like the puzzle but the guy from Saw)

[iopq@lemmy.world]

I have two free forever servers, they are alright, but they route weird. When I'm in China they go from Beijing to Japan and then to Korea causing packet loss and delays

[plz1@lemmy.world]

Forever is only forever until profit margins get tight or they have a bad enough fiscal quarter...

[dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it]

Sorry for being harsh, but if you use the "free "forever"" offering of any company as alternative to what google offers you learnt nothing from using google.

[uniquethrowagay@feddit.org]

I replaced most cloud services with my own Nextcloud instance. I like Nextcloud.

[jasondj@lemmy.zip]

I think free cloud offerings are a bit different. Different motivations. They aren't trying to harvest your data, they are trying to advertise their product.

They want sysadmins to play around and convince their bosses to buy in on Oracle. They want web devs to build demos and get their clients to host there.

Harvesting data from those customers would be a scandal, and have massive negative repercussions.

[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

Just pay the 1$ per month of a lowendbox. Com

[archer@lemmy.world]

These are the same people who brought you Oracle DB licensing. They’ll fuck you over someday, the countdown clock is already ticking

[jabjoe@feddit.uk]

It rules!

[jj4211@lemmy.world]

I've seen enough traps set by Oracle to be extra afraid of any wooden horses they are offering up.

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

Oracle has been coasting on legacy crap for a long time. They're just like IBM.