How much does Cheaploy cost?

Cheaploy charges a monthly platform fee for the managed DevOps automation. Your cloud bill stays $0 because deployments run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Always Free tier — 2 ARM Ampere CPUs, 12GB RAM, 200GB block storage, a load balancer and 10TB egress per month, perpetually free with no credit-card charges.

What's the catch with Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier?

Oracle's free tier is genuinely free, but new accounts sometimes see capacity errors in popular regions when launching ARM instances. Cheaploy auto-retries across regions and availability domains until provisioning succeeds.

Do I need DevOps experience?

No. Cheaploy detects your stack (React, Node, Python, Go, Java, etc.), generates an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile, provisions a VCN, ARM compute, load balancer, and SSL certificate, then deploys — all from a single 'Deploy' click.

Can I deploy a Lovable, Bolt, v0, or Cursor app?

Yes. Cheaploy was built for vibe coders shipping AI-generated apps. Upload a ZIP from Lovable, paste a GitHub URL from Cursor or v0, or connect Bolt — Cheaploy handles the rest and gives you a URL on your own cloud.

How is this different from Vercel, Render, or Fly.io?

Vercel, Render, and Fly.io rent you their infrastructure with generous free tiers that get expensive at scale. Cheaploy deploys to your own Oracle Cloud account, so the infrastructure is yours — and Oracle's free tier never expires.

How much RAM does a Go service need?

Typically tens of megabytes, so one Ampere instance can host many services.

Yes — Caddy can proxy gRPC over HTTP/2 with automatic TLS.

Do I need Docker at all?

Cheaploy deploys containers, and a container keeps rollbacks and health checks consistent across stacks.

Deploy Go on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (2026 guide)

A statically linked Go binary in a scratch image — a few megabytes, instant boot, negligible memory.

At a glance

Base image	`golang:1.23-alpine`
Port	`8080`
Build command	`go build -o server ./cmd/server`
Start command	`./server`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Go on Ampere ARM

Go cross-compiles to arm64 natively and CGO_ENABLED=0 gives a fully static binary — the resulting image is often under 15 MB, the fastest thing you can deploy on an Ampere instance.

Steps

Build for arm64. Set GOARCH=arm64 if you build anywhere other than the Oracle VM itself.
Use a distroless or scratch runtime. There is no shell to exploit and nothing to patch.
Expose /healthz. Cheap and instant, which makes health-check gated deploys effectively free.

Dockerfile for Go on ARM64

FROM golang:1.23-alpine AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
COPY . .
RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build -ldflags="-s -w" -o /out/server ./cmd/server

FROM gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12
COPY --from=build /out/server /server
EXPOSE 8080
USER nonroot:nonroot
ENTRYPOINT ["/server"]

Need one tailored to your repository? The free Dockerfile generator writes an ARM-ready multi-stage build for you.

Common mistakes

CGO breaks static builds: Any C dependency (some SQLite drivers) requires a glibc runtime image instead of scratch.
Missing CA certificates: Scratch images cannot make outbound HTTPS calls without copying ca-certificates.crt in.
Timezone data: Add tzdata if your app formats times in local zones.

Deploy Go on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Go on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Go on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

Get the Oracle Always Free deploy checklist

Frequently asked

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