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I am wondering if Oracle will see a major surge of compute usage and network bandwidth as people write their own scripts to create artificial loads to try to prevent their VPS from being declared idle. It could be fun to watch what the Oracles systems do if everyone runs YABS at the top of every hour from cron.
They will just stop our instance instead of deleting it.
We can start it again to use it.
It's just they are trying to save cost on idle resources by stopping it.
This is what I understand. I might be wrong as well
@cybertech is already running them 24/7
Jokes aside, Your point is fair. Oracle will ofcourse see a major surge. Wish they sent an email notification atleast about this.
Whether there is free stock, is checked every time an instance is started, not created. So it is possible that you still have the instance, but cannot start it due to no free space (out of stock) in the location.
What about Paid accounts that use free tier resources?
Will they stop idle compute instances too?
Damm
Did not know this.
Thanks
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/signingup_topic-What_Happens_When_the_Promotion_Expires.htm
AFAIK this text has been there for more than a year. I have no idea what qualifies as "use" though.
Logging in
Definitely not. It was there briefly a few years ago:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3033017/#Comment_3033017
But then they removed any mention of 60 days:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3037791/#Comment_3037791
and it was like that for a long time since then.
So if it's back, it must have been re-added recently enough, sure we don't check the site every day, but I doubt nobody would have noticed it's back for an entire year.
Starting Nov 24, 2022, your idle Always Free compute instances might be stopped.
Your Paid account uses free tier resources, so I think yes.
so if you use it too much, it gets deleted, and if you don't use it enough they will stop it. seems reasonable, like asking an ex to give back a present.
From https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
(Emphasis theirs)
So this only happens to non-upgraded accounts, at least, in theory.
Did you use the VPS when your account is still free tier? Or you have upgraded your account by enter the credit card?
@webmasteroffers Free from the start, still free (no credit cards or anything).
Awfully nice of them to give one week's notice, only to those who log in. They can send multiple emails every time a fly lands on one of their servers but they won't send one for a big change like this. Sounds about right.
Signup is never success for me! ah
I try the account upgrade.
They want to charge 100€ from my Revolut.
Isn't that just a temporary charge?
I think, but unreasonable.
Why unreasonable? It's a very common practice. Depending on the account they may have a high temporary charge to see the liquidity. They need to evaluate whether a prospective customer will be a high risk or abuser and use this as a fail safe.
Infact in US, if you use your debit card at gas station pumps, there're is typically an instant hold in the $75-$100 range which is removed soon.
I think you are over thinking if this is a temporary charge which will be removed soon.
anyways to spend $1 or $2 per month so that prevent termination of free tier services?
Add 1gb ram above limit(25gb) cost 1$ per month
Here's one data point on the idle definition - I have a Nextcloud install on mine that I backup to once a day, and I didn't have that notice when I logged in. So something like that is probably all it takes (for now), but just don't run scripts from VPNs or other data center IPs as described earlier in the thread.
You are wrong. I think just Oracle notifying is not their strength.
My friend have a idle VPS, he didn't get any notification, but my vps running mqtt (1 message/3 sec) and lot of things and I got.
@plumberg You're right, I'm used to the 1-2 dollar charge in Central Europe. My upgrade in progress.
@swagger Why would you pay? Check @martheen comment.
That could be based on alphabetical order or your node being more full than the node your buddy's server is on.
Just upgraded my account to a pay as you go account, lets see what happens.
It temporarily charged me a 138.19 SGD for this verification
I didn't see the idle message after I logged in. One of my VMs is idle, the other is recording an internet radio station (50-100GB of bandwidth per month).
The idle message was removed from dashboard. And from docs too.
Does anyone know a mail where to report an abuser with multiple instances? 30 I guess, or more...
is he brute forcing or something? I received notices from oracle when my oracle instance was once compromised, it linked to abuseipdb.com