Category: Hosting

  • Oracle Cloud free ARM VMs are easily the best deal for hobbyists

    Oracle Cloud free ARM VMs are easily the best deal for hobbyists

    Oracle Cloud new always free ARM VMs handily beat the competition in CPU performance benchmarks and memory options.

  • ‘Always Free’ cloud VM hosting – GCP vs Oracle for hobbyists

    Until recently Google Cloud Platform was the only major cloud provider that offered true ‘Always Free’, true VM hosting. Amazon Web Services does also offer Free “EC2” VM hosting, however that is only valid for one year. Recently however, Oracle has released their own Always Free Cloud VM offering that at first glance appears to…

  • New site!

    If you are one of the few readers who come visit from time to time, you may have noticed some changes. I decided that it was time for a fresh start and so I completely cleaned out the old blog, updated the backend, added SSL encryption and a new theme. From now on, instead of…