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how many days do they consider as idle?
Lol if you want a straight answer on how they determine anything, Oracle Free Tier isn't for you.
I guess you can just put slightly more than 20GB in one of the storage account (e.g. an archive one), and would be charged the difference. Could be a lot less than $1 and also may deter them from deleting the account completely, since you have data stored.
Is there a way to have a budget limit when upgrading to a PAYG account (like max $5 per month)?
I can see a way to have budget alerts (email alerts), but not restricting the maximum spend.
Do you have a source for this Nov 24 thing? I've not seen such a message, I read someone said it popped up in the control panel, but I just logged on and don't see such a message and there's no mention of this date in the documentation:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
I have 2 ARM instances, each 2 core 12 GB in London.
Upgrade to a paid tier account they require 96 EUR in credit. WTF!
I told ya, they reverse it though.
They've been completely erased, look if theres anything web archived.
Refer https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/comments/yxig05/how_would_they_know_if_its_idle_or_not_for/
I searched the last 10 pages or so of this thread looking to find some info on VPNs. Can running a personal VPN (from home to oracle for web traffic) get your account banned/suspended?
Actually, it offers more than two instances. If we are talking about how many instances you can get for free, see below:
I am actually using the two Intel ones plus two ARMs with 12 GB of RAM each and two OCPUs.
Another important detail that is not mentioned here is that Oracle considers 1 OCPU as 2 normal vCPUs, so you have two cores in the Intel machines.
Two Warnings:
You will not find all the free admissions available in all regions. I suggest you Netherland.
They have a strict content policy for the free accounts; even if it is your "own server," whenever you break the policy, they do not warn you in the free account; they just suspend the account.
Yes, you can. But see my previous comment.
And the minimum boot volume size is about 50 GB, so it is impossible to use all six instances as you listed. Running 2 ARMs with 12GB RAM and 2 vCPU each is one solution, another is to abandon running Intel ones.
But they are capped so hard, you get 1/8th of a core (dunno if total for the two, or 2x1/8), and it is really really slow, much slower than the ARM cores.
Obviously, you can experiment with how many Intel and ARM instances you can build. I mention what they offer. I never said you can have 6 at the same time
Did someone register an account recently? I'd like to know how much they reserve on the card.
About 2$
Not that this seems to not be limited to VPNs, but datacenter IPs in general. So using it in conjunction with another VPS might look to Oracle like you're using a VPN and get you suspended.
Is it forbidden to VPN a server in Oracle? I do not think so.
Right I think if Oracle is the VPN server and you're connecting from a residential IP, you're fine, though I haven't tried that.
I have not read anything about it not being permitted, and I have been using my Oracle free tier VPS as my VPN server for over 3 years now, so I can have a US IP address while traveling the world. Works great!
I also have used multiple instances as VPN servers for 3 years now, and there's really no problem with it. But note that you shouldn't torrent any copyrighted content (real Linux ISOs are fine, I seed those all the time)
I got 4 VPSes from top 4 providers here on LET in the same region of my free Oracle VPS, none of these 4 can compare to this Oracle one in term of network reliablity, unfortunately
That's being said, well, in the end, LET is still very low end, paid service but cannot compare to free one. But ofc Oracle can not be trusted with random account termination. Still, technically better than some paid ones 😂
Hello,
please is possible in VNC, subnet setting, ingress rules open all ports together? No only 80,443 etc.
Thank you.
Regards
Sure, the port ranges are optional, if you don't specify it then all ports are open. The OS-side firewall still can block stuff though.
Okay, but what type instead port number for open all port?
Which location? Given that Oracle limits the network based on resources of the server (50Mbps for x86 servers), this is complete opposite of my experience.
He probably compared with arm, 1Gbps per core
No need to type anything in the port fields, leave it empty, for the source fill it with "0.0.0.0/0" and the rule applies to all traffic from any source. This is also generally a bad™️ idea, you want a layer that a rogue app/script can't easily access.
Yes the ARM one, in US-East. I stacked 4 ARMs, but literally this is single core python script to do realtime sync at around 2Mbps. For the last 2 years, Oracle VPS has around 5-ish down time, each ~1hrs (yes, that's a lot), but other than that there is no connection drop/reset in the middle. For other 4 providers here (which are always in page 1 of LET due to huge spam lol), there are 3-ish down time, but more than ~50s times of connection drop/reset per month (hence, lost the realtime-ness of the sync). I managed to get support tickets from them, even escalate issue to network providers, but cannot solve the issue. Apparently Oracle has better peering to my destination sync server.
$200 for me to upgrade to paid so i can create 25GB RAM.