https://randx.tokyo/tags/oci/ Recent content in OCI on RANDX Hugo en-US Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0900 https://randx.tokyo/posts/i-built-my-personal-200gb-cloud-storage-for-free/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0900 https://randx.tokyo/posts/i-built-my-personal-200gb-cloud-storage-for-free/ <p><img src="https://randx.tokyo/images/built-my-personal-200GB-cloud-storage-for-free-en.jpg" alt="built-my-personal-200GB-cloud-storage-for-free"></p> <p>Deploy a personal file manager on Oracle&rsquo;s always-free cloud, fronted by Cloudflare for SSL termination and origin protection for free.</p> <p>Traffic flow: <strong>browser → Cloudflare (HTTPS :443) → OCI VM (HTTP :80) → Nginx → FileBrowser (:8080)</strong>. The origin IP is never exposed publicly; Cloudflare handles all TLS.</p> <h2 id="prerequisites"> Prerequisites <a class="heading-link" href="#prerequisites"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Requirement</th> <th>Notes</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>OCI account</td> <td>Free tier, identity-verified, payment method on file</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Cloudflare account</td> <td>Free plan at cloudflare.com</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Domain</td> <td>Active in Cloudflare (nameservers pointed, status &ldquo;Active&rdquo;)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>SSH keypair</td> <td>Ready locally before you create the VM</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="tech-stack"> Tech stack <a class="heading-link" href="#tech-stack"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Layer</th> <th>Component</th> <th>Role</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Compute</td> <td><code>VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro</code></td> <td>Always-free x86-64 VM, 1 OCPU / 1 GB RAM</td> </tr> <tr> <td>OS</td> <td>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS</td> <td>Host operating system</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Firewall</td> <td>OCI Security List + <code>ufw</code></td> <td>Two-layer ingress filtering</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Reverse proxy</td> <td>Nginx</td> <td>Forwards port 80 → FileBrowser, restores real IPs</td> </tr> <tr> <td>App</td> <td>FileBrowser</td> <td>Web-based file manager, runs on <code>localhost:8080</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Edge / CDN</td> <td>Cloudflare (free)</td> <td>SSL termination, orange-proxy, hides origin IP</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Process manager</td> <td>systemd</td> <td>Keeps FileBrowser running across reboots</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="limits"> Limits <a class="heading-link" href="#limits"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p><strong>VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro</strong> is OCI&rsquo;s x86-64 always-free shape.</p>