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Trusting any single actor with your data is a bad idea, no matter if it's Oracle, Cloudflare or $CurrentInternetDarling.

How come? Have you had a bad experience with Oracle?

We are talking about nextcloud so backup of everything is on all of your devices with are sync to it

And per many anecdotes on HN it's not just a "may" - I recall reading about people who had been prompted to upgrade to some paid tier, and upon declining their free tier account was closed.

From what I've seen, there's actually two different levels of free tier. There's the one where you make an account and don't give them your payment info, and are on a free trial (availability of Ampere servers is severely limited in this, and they deactivate your account if you don't sign in often enough or use the servers you create), and the other where you give them payment information and set up a real account and get credits towards 200GB storage and the free tier compute.

My guess is that people who complain about their stuff being deleted are on the former.

"may" is that English word that non-natives learn too late that it actually means "will".

I remember when I first moved to England and my boss told me I may work on x and I thought that it is optional so I did something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-brgkkjnHc

Also good luck creating an account in the first place. Their shitty fraud checking partner keeps rejecting perfectly legit credit cards even after they've been verified with 3D secure check.

The machine has 24 GB of RAM, which is nowhere near that cheap in most places.

Nope my blog exploaded because of the number of entries :( Sorry for that!

They successfully charged my card for $1 like a dozen times as I tried and failed to get past their check. At the time I wasn't even interested in the free stuff, I wanted to pay for an ARM VPS, and their verification system just wasn't satisfied with something. After getting frustrated I tried to sign up for Hetzner instead and they allowed me to register and spin up a VPS without even having any payment information on file, they just trusted that I would pay the invoice at the end of the month. Funny how different the two companies treat this stuff.

I contacted them by email and was eventually able to create an account. Had to contact them again at another point where their system once again checks for something with a credit card and again rejected me. I can't remember exactly for what.

It worked eventually and I use the free tier server for small things, but of course it means I can't ever consider using their service for anything serious.

Both docker and podman support rootless containers. Podman is in no way "better" or "more modern" as you suggest, mostly everyone still uses docker.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/

https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorial...

If you have a complex compose setup* I guess that docker is still a good value.

Overall going with the most popular option has various benefits in terms of compatibility and support.

*Either in terms of many complex services or in terms of services like traefik that rely a lot on listening to the docker socket

I still use Docker, any particular reason why I should switch to Posman except it being daemonless?

Every 3rd party application that uses containers provide only instructions/support for docker.

If you add yourself to the docker group you don't need to use sudo.

Yup sorry for that, blog exploaded because of the number of entries.

thanks for the description