Thanks @tfa, I launched a couple of nodes from my Oracle Cloud instance and connected successfully to your genesis node.
in the end, to summarise this experiment of mine:
- Oracle Cloud provides an always free instance, Arm Ampere 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory and 250GB max disk space (or 4 instances with 1/4 resources)
- Maidsafe provided binaries work on above instance, running Canonical-Ubuntu
- Launching a genesis node on the above instance seems problematic, although I believe further investigation should be done on this point, just don’t have time ATM
- hosting Safenetwork nodes on the infrastructure above is feasible and works, which was what I was interested in the end, so I’m satisfied with the experiment.