Solution : Don’t be stupid. Open the proper ports.

Hey there!

So, I’m getting ready to move from places to places for the next six months and it’s going to be a bit of a hassle. My servers will be offline until I find a permanent home, which is stressing me out because I rely on a bunch of services I host for my daily routine.

So I’ve set up an Oracle free tier account so I can still access my favorite services while I’m in limbo. I’m using docker and Portainer to manage everything, and so far Serge (for the lolz) and Vikunja are up and running with no issues using the IP Oracle provided.

But when I tried to set up Bookstack, Whoogle and Searxng, they installed fine but for some reason they won’t open. I’ve checked the logs and there are no errors, I just keep getting a timeout message in my browser.

I haven’t tested any other services yet, but I’m stumped as to why these two won’t cooperate. I’m just a casual hobbyist and not an expert, so if anyone could lend a hand, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    Take backups, I’ve heard reports of them randomly shutting everything off and deleting the account.

    Frankly, Oracle isn’t worth free, but fill your boots.

    • farcaller@fstab.shEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I got my account closed with no reason a hair after 12 months. It was good while it lasted, and I have the backups outside of oracle’s cloud.

  • Tramort@programming.devEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    I cannot recommend using Oracle.

    Ever.

    For any reason.

    They are malignant, and you will regret this decision.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Been using them for over a year now. I’m not a proud or loyal customer, but it’s a very generous free tier and I haven’t regretted it.

    • xinayder@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I tried 5 different credit cards to setup my account and none of them worked for the free tier. Contacted customer support, they simply said “well we can’t do anything about it, it’s clearly a problem in your end and not ours even though you tried 5 different credit cards to pay for the service”.