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I just saw that its possible to change boot/block volume performance (they call it "VPU"). I tried to increase it to the max and instead of usual 1.5k IOPS I got 13.5k IOPS for 4K read/write! 1M sequential write jumped from ~25MB/s to ~100MB/s.
The question is - are we, as free tier users allowed to use this without cost? I couldn't find any info about limits for free tier or maybe my Google is broken lol. For "normal users" this faster storage is more expensive. Anybody tried it for longer time?
If you don't know where it is - go to your instance details, scroll down, choose "boot volume", click on name of your boot volume and then click blue "edit" button.
Yabs after this tweak
I am using Ultra High Performance(UHP) from when they first introduce it. I am in always the free tier now. I asked support about it while I was on the free trial. Their response was like If I can use UHP while in the free tier, then it's included in the free tier. They couldn't provide a specific response.
Thanks a lot for info. If they are so unclear with communication instead of being specific it gives me impression that they can "pull out plug" in any moment. I hope they dont, because Ampere + this UHP tweak is great combo. I'll see if I can replace couple of old cheapo VPSes with one Ampere xD I thought that ARM compatibility would be problem but 100% of software that I need is available and works fine.
Fresh yabs.sh in case if anyone is interested.
Ampere A1 2OCPU/12GB/100GB boot volume with UHP tweak in Frankfurt
No, not free, it shows up as $$$ in the cost analyzer if you increase it from the default performance settings.
I am not seeing any $$$. By the way, I am using 200GB in one boot volume.
Someone reported seeing charges on a boot volume that was supposed to be always free, it was not showing as always free, after changing storage from 50 to 49 and back to 50 it was showing always free and the charges stopped. Another reason for that might be that you got over the free tier 200 GB limit via the ARM bug(If you don't touch default storage upon VM creation, you can get over 200GB). I only saw this when i got over the 200GB limit but then killed the VMs and there are no more charges so far, even tho i maxed out the disk performance.
After one month of use, the instance was disabled.
It was Ampere, 4 ocpu, 24Gb.
It looks like it's not always free.
Unable to start instance: Instance ocid1.instance.oc1.eu-frankfurt-1.xxx is disabled and will not accept any action requests. Please contact customer support to reenable.Can you create a new instance now? If not then probably your account is disabled.
Somewhere I saw that after the trial period ends, the ARM instance/s will be reclaimed by Oracle & you have to create the ARM instance again. This could be the case here too.
I created account in April. First instance VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro is working fine. In May, I created a second instance, Ampere. It was blocked today.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3241209/#Comment_3241209
But trial was ended before i create ampere instance. Or does Ampere have a separate trial?
Then I don't know what could have happened. It looks suspicious. Contact support on chat and write us their answer.
Yabs of 4 core ARM free
VS
Contabo VPS S SSD
DEAM BOII
You didnt asked Contabo to increase your IO limit or they refused to do so?
didn't ask
I asked in chat support about shutting down the arm instance.
It still seems to be shut down after the one month grace period is over.
However, it is strange that the instance I created after the trial ended was shut down.
If you are worried about the shutdown, you can ask the chat support to confirm it.
I asked Contabo, but they sayd that no limit on my disk. I have same results on 4K and 64K but I have total 200 MB/s on 512K and 1M. Sadly, the apt update process is very slow.
I thought that I ask a node migration, but I'm afraid that they move me to a more loaded node.
So you faced the same issue as @somewherenear here?
What response did you get?
Does anyone know if the x86> @Hotmarer said:
Do the x86 instances get terminated in a similar manner?
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
I have not had the same problem.
They said they would never shut down an arm instance created after the trial ended.
I created an arm instance after the trial ended and am waiting to see what happens.
There is no automatic termination of x86 instances.
@minetaro12 Got it! Let's see how it goes
I just create a new VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VM in Tokyo and I got the 0.7GB of RAM. Is that normal?
I have 976.5 MiB in Tokyo.
RAM : 974.5 MiBin Hyderabad running Ubuntu.I used to get that amount. But not now ._.
Do you use RHEL-based image like Oracle Linux or CentOS? Try to check memory reservation for kdump:
dmesg | grep crashkernelSo Oracle Linux is the reason why.
[ 0.007106] Reserving 280MB of memory at 678MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 1018MB)https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/m3uhqy/psa_stay_away_from_oracle_cloud/
Will free tier capacity ever become available or should I just give up?