Of course. Need to be extra cautious so you don’t get a surprise bill for your birthday.

That’s what I liked more about Oracle as compared to AWS or GCP etc’, is that you need to manually upgrade your account to paid account. and if u don’t then you just can’t create another machine or another block storage.

But still it’s extremely important to read every word so you know what you’re getting yourself into.

You can run your searxng on a VPS, and then it’ll hide your IP address.

In most cloud provides you can also change your machine’s IP address so there’s also that.

that’s gonna make it very slow tho…

Oracle have a great free tier. For free (not a trial, but forever free), you can get a virtual machine with 24gb RAM, and storage of 200gb. you might wanna consider that.

If you do choose to use oracle, I’ll note you that you do need a credit card, tho it’ll not be charged unless you manually upgrade your account to paid account.

I’m not advertising them, I just really think they’re great and I’m using it myself.