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How do you even create one of the free VMs?
I can only see VM.Standard2.1, VM.Standard2.2, VM.Standard.E2.1 and VM.Standard.E2.2 which have way more resources than the free ones.
Edit: It finally appeared
Thats why its free:
10/10.
The key word is "Hello"
Haha, thats not funny.
Really? ... and no the keyword is not "Hello".
Its more like the phrase I used, since multiple attempts with Hello before failed.
Meh I can't sign up, credit card declined always.
Zurich speedtest
Geekbench process killed
How long does it take to "activate" the account? I've received the initial email saying that they are reviewing my account, yesterday..
Got it activated in like 5 minutes.
So they have my data (including credit card), and left me nowhere. Great.
I've created a 50GB block volume (that's the minimal size system allows me) but when I try to attach it to VM system warns that my volume isn't s part of 'always free tier'....
I only have 1 VM up so wondering what's wrong. Their chat wasn't helpful they sent me to another team that was offline.
Has anyone managed to attach a block volume under free tier limits?
I can't even create a free VM. It always shows me "Out of host capacity."
Either they were overrun with new signups or they had very little spare hardware for the free tier VMs and want people to buy the higher priced ones. No matter what, this gives a bad impression.
Please always say which DC you tried and got this.
Lol, it's free!
Oracle says:
It's the right impression.
I have $300 to use over 4 weeks.
I guess I HAVE TO. 😏
If you can't even create a VM, all it means you just gave your personal details and credit card to them for free.
Got an instance running in Tokyo. Tried to create a second one but returns out of resource.
Can you do a speedtest-cli please?
As posted before by others, the network is capped at about 50 Mbit.
u r so lucky
can you let me know when you create your instance ?
Anyone having trouble opening ports in their firewall? I opened ports in the Security List tied to my instance. It worked, but when I rebooted the instance, I can no longer connect to those ports. Can't complain too much, though...it's free. I guess I will try Oracle support.
Edit: Nevermind, I added:
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport <MYPORT#> -j ACCEPT
to /etc/iptables/rules.v4 to enable the port and it worked. Apparently UFW can cause issues with Oracle Instances.
London
Start an auction if you think your personal details are worth much to anyone, I'm sure there'll be a bidding war.
Worked good for me in Canada. Free teir vps didn't display initially but worked fine after reloging
Those Asian DCs are like Area51, except a horde of people actually showed up.
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by GLBB Japan (Tokyo) [46.63 km]: 2.312 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 48.57 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 43.42 Mbit/s
17 Sep. But my IP has already been blocked by GFW.
Tokyo
nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
benchmark timestamp: 2019-09-20 07:54:43 UTC
Processor: AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
CPU cores: 2
Frequency: 1996.242 MHz
RAM: 982M
Swap: -
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1023-oracle x86_64
Disks:
loop0 88.7M HDD
loop1 14.1M HDD
loop2 89M HDD
sda 46.6G HDD
CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
11.711 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
18.982 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
4.231 seconds
ioping: seek rate
min/avg/max/mdev = 381.1 us / 608.4 us / 25.0 ms / 398.9 us
ioping: sequential read speed
generated 1.12 k requests in 5.00 s, 279.5 MiB, 223 iops, 55.9 MiB/s
dd: sequential write speed
1st run: 48.83 MiB/s
2nd run: 49.30 MiB/s
3rd run: 49.21 MiB/s
average: 49.11 MiB/s
IPv4 speedtests
your IPv4: 140.238.35.xxxx
No IPv6 connectivity detected
I'm lucky to have 2 instances in Germany.
Does anyone know how to reinstall an instance ? Or does one need to delete one and create a new one (with the risk of having another IP address or getting an "out of capacity" message) ?
Also: anyone tried to install Windows on such a machine ? Not sure it is supported in the "always free" tier though...