One concern is that many free tier will charge you if you run of out
quota on traffic,cpu end the like.
I would like to have a hard cap or being throttle, no problem.
There are some that deliver unlimited traffic, but often have limited bandwidth. Should be fine for your use case.
I did some research and some cloud providers are the usual suspect
Oracle Cloud
Google Cloud
etc. etc.
I planning to use unauthenticated read only git daemon, and I more than
happy to get a vm that has some disk space and network ip and be hosted somewhere, I can maintain that.
One concern is that many free tier will charge you if you run of out
quota on traffic,cpu end the like.
I would like to have a hard cap or being throttle, no problem.
Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> writes:
There are some that deliver unlimited traffic, but often have limited
bandwidth. Should be fine for your use case.
Do you have some link to suggest? limited bandwidth is perfectly fine.
bixbox <noreply@example.invalid> wrote:
mention what happens after that so I guess there's a risk they
might permanently suspend your account until a fee is paid: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
The Oracle Cloud VPSs are a bit of a pain to set up, and you need
to avoid features that aren't "allways free" during the initial 30
day trial after which VPSs using those features are shut down.
There's also this one. It says badwidth is limited to 1TB, but:
"If the inclusive traffic is exceeded, the connection becomes capped
to 1Mbit/s, if no additional traffic is purchased by customer."
https://www.euserv.com/en/virtual-private-server/root-vserver/v2/vs2-free.php
There's also this in my bookmarks, but I also can't see what
happens when you exceed their 2TB limit: https://www.vultr.com/free-tier-program/ https://blogs.vultr.com/new-free-tier-plan/
Hello,
apologize in advance if that is the wrong group or it was posted
already.
I search around extensively but I did not found much.
I want to share some of my git repo in read only mode, but for personal reason I don't want to use existing web apps provider like github or
gitlab and the like.
People should be free to fork it but I want to maintain the repo with simple "git am" and friend that are more than enough for me.
I did some research and some cloud providers are the usual suspect
Oracle Cloud
Google Cloud
etc. etc.
I planning to use unauthenticated read only git daemon, and I more than
happy to get a vm that has some disk space and network ip and be hosted somewhere, I can maintain that.
One concern is that many free tier will charge you if you run of out
quota on traffic,cpu end the like.
I would like to have a hard cap or being throttle, no problem.
Do consider some kind of AI bot blocking, as this consumes a big chunk of traffic and CPU time nowadays.
Oracle FAQ are note very clear of what happen in case of exceeding
the Free tier quota
On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:59:34 +0200, bixbox wrote:
Oracle FAQ are note very clear of what happen in case of exceeding
the Free tier quota
No doubt a company who subscribe to the view that the rCLArCY in rCLFAQrCY stands for rCLAskedrCY, not rCLAnsweredrCY ...
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Do consider some kind of AI bot blocking, as this consumes a big chunk of traffic and CPU time nowadays.
Oh great, and make another site that won't let me in unless I'm
using a mainstream Web browser.
CPU load is also low (most content there is static). That said,
their free VPSs are over-subscribed so you don't get the sort of
CPU performance you might see with a paid service using an
equivalent-spec CPU.
Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Do consider some kind of AI bot blocking, as this consumes a big chunk of >> > traffic and CPU time nowadays.
Oh great, and make another site that won't let me in unless I'm
using a mainstream Web browser.
I didn't say that. There are other ways, including blocking known AI User-Agents and blocking IPs/ranges which are seen to hammer your server. It's a depressing game of cat and mouse. The Cloudflare / Anubis browser-checkers are one tool you can use, but there are others.
--CPU load is also low (most content there is static). That said,
their free VPSs are over-subscribed so you don't get the sort of
CPU performance you might see with a paid service using an
equivalent-spec CPU.
It's a particular problem if you are hosting dynamic content - eg I hosted webSVN and the bots tied up the server in knots as every page is full of links
to other dynamic pages. The CPU couldn't serve them fast enough to keep on top of the bots requesting them all.
Theo
Please do not use Cloudflare unless you configure it to somehow allow
other browsers than the ones they support. It was already frustrating
that they'd require JS, but ever since the Browser Integrity Check was reimplemented on top of Turnstile they've stopped caring about
fallbacks.
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