How to Self-Host Pocketbase on Oracle Cloud and Fix the Firewall Issue
I recently found that Oracle Cloud offers a generous Always Free tier — yes, a VPS that can run forever. Thank you, Oracle! Here’s what I deployed on that VPS (PocketBase), plus how I fixed the firewall and enabled HTTPS. Why PocketBase I was building an MVP for a friend (see Allo LAM3LLEM). We wanted to move fast, so I picked two tools: Next.js: great DX and a stack AI models are well‑trained on. PocketBase: acts as a lightweight API + DB + auth in one binary. I don’t want to rebuild common features from scratch. Now let’s go to the main goal here: how to set up Pocketbase on an Oracle VPS! ...