The Serverless Gap: How Oracle Cloud and Coolify Enable Zero-Cost Long-Running Services

Serverless computing has clear limitations—functions time out, workers face CPU constraints, and maintaining stateful daemons is fundamentally impossible. Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier paired with Coolify's self-hosted Heroku-like platform closes this gap, providing genuinely capable hardware at zero cost and enabling developers to run long-lived services that serverless architectures cannot support.