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That comment is still valid. Public torrent or not, your account might get terminated anytime. If you want a reliable seedbox(or anything at all), it isn’t the go to service
Ooh ok. Got it.
So.....you are not much worried about account termination?
Edit:- Nvm. Read your comment again and got it. Thanks
Fingers crossed lol. I’ll update if and when it happens
Seems like they are terminating random people on the free tier again.
Rip. I'm still good so crossing my fingers.
FWIW, my Oracle free tier account seems okay. Been using it for months now, and without upgrading to a paid account.
Some of you guys might be interested to read my Low End Box article about not upgrading to a paid account, Asking the Oracle, "Is 'Always Free' the future of the Low End?"
According to my Oracle Cloud account it was made on Aug 16, 2020 so I've had this for very almost 2 years now. Used to use the Epyc instances before they launched Ampere and thought it was quite generous, I was taken aback when they launched as many Ampere resources as they did.
I've not upgraded my account away from Always Free, the card I used for signup has expired by now and no payment method shows on my account anymore anyway. Free services work completely fine.
I did have the scare before where they removed all my IPv4 addresses and I had to put them back, I tweaked my setups to rely on IPv6 more just in case that happens again.
But yes, Oracle has sort of a history of both rejecting sign-ups and deleting existing accounts for arbitrary or unexplained reasons. This might be their AI tripping up on something nobody can understand or some other similarly strange system. Given that it is an entirely free service it is understandable that support isn't going to be of any use (Support hours are very costly), so always tread with caution but don't be afraid to enjoy the free stuff while you have it.
My Oracle instances back themselves up to BorgBase every 6 hours, if they all die one day then I will restore their contents on another server, even if I have to pay for it then it will have been worth the trouble for the 2+ years of free service.
That's just my situation though. Some people get terminated after hours, some after days or weeks or months. Take backups, be cautious, but enjoy it nonetheless.
Right. I don't discount some random cancelations here and there, but I still suspect there's either some odd use cases that are failing Oracle's automated checks and/or some torrenting that's getting flagged that's causing most of these cancelations.
But like others have said, it's free, so enjoy it while you can. Easy come easy go.
Read through that. I was tempted to limit that boot volume to 199 GB just like you, just in case there was no wiggle room on the 200 GB cap. But it let me go to 200 GB without issue, still on the free tier for months now.
I created account a few days ago but couldnt create any VM and getting some error. Opened a ticket but they closed it saying I am a free customer so need to use community forum.
I opened a thread on Oracle forum but no luck. They just dont reply.
Then day before yesterday I received an automated email from Oracle VP asking me to submit my response to the ticket I created a few days ago. You know the one where they ask you some questions about quality of their support like a survey.
I straight up told them what happened and that Oracle cloud is a fucking joke (my exact words) which no one takes seriously.
The very next day my ticket was reopened and a support person assigned. Now he will have a Zoom session with me tomorrow to check what the issue is.
This video mentions some errors. His channel is probably the biggest resource for setting things up, so he might have covered your issue somewhere along the line.
Saw the video but my issue is not discussed in it. The error I am getting is
You don't have permission to view these resources in this compartment. Try another compartment, or contact your administrator for helpI tried numerous times to get a free tier account from them. Their customer service was very unresponsive and I was told on the phone that there was an issue with my account creation but that it was "against company policy" to tell me what it was. I asked him then "how do I fix it?" and he said I can't. Any tips or tricks for those of us who Oracle deems unworthy of their free services?
Get a job at Fortune 500. They appear to weed out the little guys as resources are less available than at launch.
Clicking on what? You should be able to get to the Vm creation page at least.
if i create an instance with 4x arms, 200GB and 25GB ram (yes, 1GB more from free tier limit) which add cost less than 1-2 dollars a month, will that will make my vm safe from their random termination?
@ElonBezos Bright idea! I like it! But, does that extra 1 GB move the entire instance out of the free tier such that you would be charged for the entire instance, not just the extra 1 GB?
Yes I go to VM creation page where you see all settings like CPU, OS, RAM etc. Even if I keep everything default and just press button to create, I get this error message.
Not according to the T&Cs, but who knows whether it'll make it safe!
Tell us how it goes!
This seems like a good idea, i really like this arm machines, if they cost 1 dollar a month and i make sure they don't get automatically deleted, then i'll happily pay for it.
According to the pricing calculator you'll only be charged for the usage above the free tier, in this case 1GB of RAM which costs around $1
As such 24 GB of RAM will get terminated, but you'll get 1GB remaining, except no CPU or storage to use it with.
But speaking seriously, it seems like "random terminations" is a much more overblown "issue" than it actually is (if there is such a thing at all).
All the account termination story I hear happened to the account created in the last 0-2 months. Usually in their first month before trial expires. I guess those accounts created a long time ago are safe?
Oracle prioritize paid users in terms of resources allocation. So if there is some incident on the host node & nodes need to be moved, we might end up out of host capacity situation. Specially those MJJ's favorite locations.
Yeah I think some of it is random automated checks gone wrong (or capacity constraints), but some is almost certainly people saying they were terminated for no reason but were really torrenting or something like that (or maybe just sitting on the VPS and not using it?). A free tier or anything is going to bring some level of abuse, and some might think that behavior they get away with on other VPSs is going to be allowed on Oracle.
Ok my VM is finally created and I have got public and private keys. How do I use these keys in putty to connect to my VM? Or if you know how to use them on Windows command prompt as Windows 10 has now ssh client built in which can be accessed from command prompt.
ssh opc@ip_address —i private_keyip_address is the public IP address of the instance, and private_key is the full path and name of the file
For details, you can refer this
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/cloud-at-customer/occ-get-started/log-vm-using-ssh.html
If you want to change it to password based login in ssh, let me know. I will share the steps I had done in past
Or you can just use that key once and add your normal ssh key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys as usual.
Thanks it worked. I noticed that
htopis showing the machine has 2 cores and 680MB RAM but Oracle panel says it has 1 OCPU and 1GB RAM. Strange. Plus the machine looks very slow.From Oracle docs :
While it's expected that certain amount of RAM to be reserved, over 300 MB seems excessive. What do you get when running https://github.com/madrisan/linux-iomem/blob/master/iomem.sh ?
About the slow part, you don't actually get the entire OCPU, just 1/8 OCPU, as in, throttled to 12.5%
Aren't the free x86 cores actually 1/4 of a core?