Post by @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
Many of you are starting to explore NetBSD, and it's a great idea.
Why don't you also consider to use it for your online presence?
Make Your Own Internet Presence with NetBSD and a 1 euro VPS - Part 1: Your Blog
I never tried, but it should work on oracle cloud free tier
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_arm_on_oracle_cloud
I'm currently running #littlefedi on ubuntu on oracle free tier.
If I have free resources left, I'm gonna check it.
ok, the instructions above are 100% correct, the only thing is that once the system first booted, you have only opc user and it can't login via ssh.
I had to connect as root with a serial console to set a proper password for opc user.
Now i don't have anything relevant to do , but works fine enough to fire up nginx
http://152.70.45.36/