5 Things I'm Actually Running on My Free Oracle Cloud ARM Box (That Aren't a Blog)

Oracle's free tier gives you 4 ARM cores and 24GB RAM. Forever. Most people waste it on nginx serving a portfolio site that gets 3 visitors a month. Here's what's actually worth running. 1. Self-Hosted AI Inference with Ollama + Mistral 7B Run a local LLM that you actually own. Ollama turns model management into a docker pull -style workflow, and Mistral 7B fits comfortably in 24GB with room to breathe. Turns out 24GB is the magic number for 7B models. You get real inference speeds without quant