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.

Why not a hosted monitoring plan?

Free plans cap monitors and check frequency; self-hosting removes both limits at $0 infrastructure cost.

Can it monitor internal services?

Yes, anything reachable from the VM, including private VCN addresses.

Does it support status pages with a custom domain?

Yes, on a subdomain you attach in Cheaploy.

Deploy Uptime Kuma on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (2026 guide)

Self-hosted uptime monitoring and status pages, with unlimited monitors and one-minute checks.

At a glance

Base image	`louislam/uptime-kuma:1`
Port	`3001`
Start command	`node server/server.js`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Uptime Kuma on Ampere ARM

Uptime Kuma publishes ARM64 images and idles at roughly 150 MB of RAM, so it happily shares an instance with your app.

Steps

Deploy behind your domain. Put it on a subdomain like status.yourdomain.com with automatic TLS.
Add notification channels. Email, Slack, Telegram and webhooks are all built in.
Publish a status page. Kuma generates a public status page from your monitors.

Dockerfile for Uptime Kuma on ARM64

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  uptime-kuma:
    image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - kuma:/app/data
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:3001:3001"
volumes:
  kuma:

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

Common mistakes

Monitoring from the same host you monitor: If the VM dies, so does the monitor. Watch external targets from here and keep an off-host check for the VM itself.
Too-frequent checks: Hundreds of 20-second monitors will saturate one core.
No backup of /app/data: All monitor history lives in that volume.

Deploy Uptime Kuma on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Uptime Kuma on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Uptime Kuma on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

Get the Oracle Always Free deploy checklist

Frequently asked

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