Oracle is an old but wise player, and it always surprise.
Rating: 7 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
It is the primary VM provider for 5 of my customers. We use it to host LAMP environments, and due to the close data center, they have in Brazil the ping is super low. This is super important as the apps we host are "almost real-time", and we need responses in the millisecond's range. Oracle delivers that even with traditional hard disks.
Pros
- Easy config for VM.
- Very fast pings worldwide
- Cheaper prices than the competition
- Free VMs to test the service and do development and proofs of concept work
Cons
- Firewall configuration.
- They should include the possibility of "cloning" a VM that is already up and running.
- They should include SSD at all service levels, even the free tier.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present.
Vetted Review
3 years of experience