In the past few days, I was thinking about creating my own professional email. I said, “Why not have me@simolog.com? It looks nice, no?” I also wanted to use a free service, but I didn’t find any free options, so I decided to use Mail-in-a-Box and an Oracle Cloud VPS (free forever: 1 GB RAM, 50 GB storage). It would be enough for me! The idea was very promising! “Self-host a mail server on Oracle Cloud (forever plan)” ...
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! ...