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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Deep-Dragonfly-3342 on 2025-07-26 22:43:20+00:00.
It seems too good to be true, oracle cloud's competitors (like aws light sail) free tiers are ass compared to oracle's. So why doesn't every restaurant or whatnot just host their web server on oracle cloud instead of other platforms? There has to be a catch.
I do know that AWS lightsail, despite their paid version being worse than Oracle Cloud, does have a gotcha, in that if you go over your egress limits you do have to pay. Does Oracle Cloud have any gotchas like this, or is Oracle Cloud genuinely a steal?
edit: I was also wondering, what if I go past my egress limit or what if my server gets hacked and someone starts pushing the CPU, will this cloud platform just automatically add more CPU power to the server or add more egress and auto charge me for that or will they just stop running my server once the limits are hit?Asking cause they require my credit card info when I am signing up.