As many people know, Oracle Cloud has a very generous free tier. If you’re lucky and manage to bag yourself a slot, you can have yourself a 4 core, 24GB of RAM ARM64 VPS for free with up to 200GB of storage and a boatload of bandwidth available.

However, there is a catch… If you’re an idiot and create a VM without the right private keys assigned… That VM is useless. Or if you decide to nixos-infect a server without setting up your root SSH keys first… you can also lock yourself out, ask me how I know…