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Dang, 4 cores + 24GB RAM + 200GB disk + 10TB bandwidth/month for free?! If the service is stable (which one would hope, considering their target market), that covers a lot of the VPS market.
Also potentially nice alternative to using my RasPi for ARM development.
Though I can't seem to create it with the Ubuntu image (despite this post) - it only allows me to select the A1 instance if OS = latest Oracle Linux.
wtf 24GB RAM for free? Anyone using this on production?
Since it doesn't even get Ubuntu, let alone Debian, I plan to use it for production-grade idling for now.
Yes, trying LXC/LXD on it.
yolo
A debian cloud image with cloud-init
https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/
https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/oracle.html
IMHO more providers on LET should work on supporting cloud-init. It really works. Same cloud-init metadata on the host side boots cent, ubuntu, deb, etc without any pain.
Just deployed my production application idle.java, it listens on a socket and does a very important job of doing nothing.
I hot-swapped mine to Alpine & Debian and use them for production DNS & HAproxy. Uptime is good.
Main thing that sucks is being restricted to same/home region. Would like to create the ARM instances in a different region without creating additional account(s).
How about the connection? Is it still 50Mbps? My uptime is almost a year for ftp backup using updraft, but whenever I backup/restore only get 50Mbps
Yes still same.
Just wondering, that uptime is long, do you not update the os? update kernel without reboot?
Two words I don't believe in, one is alwaysand one is free, and this place just happens to do both, so I think it will be an abuser's paradise, at least I've seen people from some Chinese forums register 30 Oracle accounts for mining.
Of course, I myself have not yet created an Oracle account, because when I tried to create it he prompted a failure, I did not consider a second attempt, which is something that makes me very cursed, and I will not choose this product.
Note: I have MC and AE credit cards and live in Hong Kong, permanent resident, the above is my personal opinion only and does not represent this product.
I've been watching Oracle cloud offerings for some time, it's a pity they haven't launched their Singapore region yet.
It is running as a hypervisor to LXC containers which do get updated regularly. Alpine kernel on the host is pretty stable. Can always use Ksplice (free in Oracle cloud).
Holy! Could you paste in the full YABS, please?
no, yabs won't run on ARM.
I hacked it to bypass the check however I/O ain't working.
Tired to compile filo thingy manually did not work on Oracle crap os.
Trying ubuntu later
To be sure, I checked and the free-eligible ARM shape was showing up in a different (non-home) region. I've been able to provision it normally. Not sure if I'll get billed for the IPv4/storage but let's see.
@Chocoweb does your script worked with Oracle Linux 7.9 and ARM instance?
I tried but no changes after reboot.
Edit: Nevermind. My point is to change ARM instance to Debian OS with any base OS. The script worked with Ubuntu 20.04. Thank you!
Ah ok
Please let me know how that goes, want to do the same.
Or does it?
https://talk.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/50899/#Comment_50899
2020 sir, he now has a check to prevent that.
Also the compiled binaries won't run on arm64
Geekbench 5:
Single Core: 873; Multi: 3387
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8108162
Well, it is theoretically faster than the laptop I'm using.
this is amazing. currently testing in mumbai, zero wa and cpu steal.
Yeah, I realised it isn't available in Hyderabad.
"All tenancies receive a total of 200 GB of Block Volume storage, and five volume backups included in the Always Free resources. These amounts apply to both boot volumes and block volumes combined."
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
Just tested it in Mumbai, scores aside it feels fast.
Any solution to install Ubuntu to ARM machine?
I made a 200GB boot volume, but df -show only 36gb
Select Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 20.04 minimal.
Geekbench result (Amazing)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/8109320
I created the arm instance,but i don't see the " always free" next to the name of the instance? Is this normal or do we get charged for it?