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How I saved $800 a year moving from DigitalOcean to Oracle Free Tier

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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Oracle Use case My use-case was relatively simple. We needed an application to track supply chain demands over time. The reason was that the company I was working with were still using hand-written notes and sending these notes to vendors who would then transcribe it and send assets over. All of this took a lot of overhead and time; furthermore, it was very easy to forget what kind of assets were already purchased since there was no searchable history. The tech stack built to approach this problem was a front-end built in react and hosted statically. The backend was a simple Django application, simply wrapping around my DB and simply hosting the API / backend. This was the only thing I needed to host and honestly it could be a completely serverless application, but I didn't want to muck around too much with serverless as this project had a timeline of a week. Digital Ocean Digital ocean, as you may already know, is a cloud hosting provider for develop