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.

Do I need Redis at all?

For sessions, rate limiting and background queues it is the simplest option — and self-hosting removes the free-tier size limits.

Can I run BullMQ or Celery against it?

Yes, both work unchanged against a container on the same VM.

Does it survive reboots?

With `--restart unless-stopped` and an AOF volume, yes.

Deploy Redis on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (2026 guide)

A cache, queue and rate limiter on your own VM — no per-command pricing, no 30 MB free-plan ceiling.

At a glance

Base image	`redis:7-alpine`
Port	`6379`
Start command	`redis-server --appendonly yes`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Redis on Ampere ARM

Redis is single-threaded and memory bound — one Ampere core plus a 512 MB cap handles queue and cache duty for most apps with room to spare.

Steps

Set a memory limit and eviction policy. An unbounded Redis will happily consume the whole instance.
Enable AOF if the data matters. Queues and sessions usually should survive a restart; pure caches need not.
Keep it on the private network. Bind to 127.0.0.1 and connect from your app container by service name.

Dockerfile for Redis on ARM64

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: ["redis-server", "--appendonly", "yes", "--maxmemory", "512mb", "--maxmemory-policy", "allkeys-lru"]
    volumes:
      - redisdata:/data
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:6379:6379"
volumes:
  redisdata:

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

Common mistakes

Open Redis on the public internet: Unauthenticated Redis is one of the most exploited services online. Never publish 6379 publicly.
Using Redis as the source of truth: It is a cache first. Persist anything you cannot rebuild.
No maxmemory: The OOM killer will take your app container down with it.

Deploy Redis on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Redis on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Redis on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

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Frequently asked

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