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Why are you using 10GB instead of 24GB? Do you think it's safer?
If you care about the services whether it eill be deleted/ shut off then you are using the wrong product.
For me its been rock solid and has had great uptime ... over 200 days without any disruption
10gb is more then enough 4me, so using only 10gb
4 cores, 4 GB for 3 years. I'm trying to sell or exchange it somehow as I don't use it anymore.
Ill take it for $0
20$
@angstrom: nothing to see here
I've been using it for 3 years with 4 cores and 24GB, and there’s no problem. I think it gets shut down for those using it for things like VPN or torrenting.
Just 1 amd 1c 1gb 50gb. Doesn't need the beefy arm yet plus sometimes its pain dealing with docker arm. The current instance is running since 3 years but my account are from 2019. Stupid ubuntu 6 months major system update broke my old instance so now i used alma.
Those ARM cores used to be faster than the Xeon cores in the old workstation that I had last year; then I bought a Ryzen computer with 24 logical cores, each twice as fast as those on the Oracle ARM. So the Oracle VM fell into disuse.
Since 2021/06 am semi-idling the full allocated free tier options. DC is in Sao Paulo, full stable. Pay as you go account with some payments here and there.
Except for the 2 AMD cores that were slow dogs since the begginning and gotten only worse over time (40% steal, 35% I/Owait), can't say bad things about it.
Do not discuss it. I have my instances, pumped petabytes of traffic. Be silent, enjoy while it last.
If anyone has free tier and not being used please donate to me 🥺
I can never pass the signup process 😂😂😂
I haven't received notices that they were idle and will be deleted in a while. Maybe they're infected and keeping busy. Or maybe they just have capacity to spare in Toronto.
00:20:48 up 218 days, 19:19, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00time for my twice-annual restart I guess
Never gotten any idle warnings even though I'm only using one of them to store some backups.
edit: Oh yeah, and signed up mid-2021.
You may be right, maybe it's infected and someone is storing their vintage porn stash in your server, maybe some ageing hacker is keeping it lightly busy for nostalgic reasons. You never know.
24G idling since 2019, just in the last few months started to put it to use (cosmoscloud.io).
I also had 1G within the free tier that had gotten powered down. Converted it to Debian 12, need to figure out a use for it. Maybe throw copyparty or bewcloud on it and then rclone sftp some brr or microtronix.
Despite starting a massive thread on this when it was first announced in 2019...I've never actually gotten around to signing up.
It is ok. More left for us.
Enjoy!
I used to have ARM in AMS, but I tried to split it to two instances and now it's always out of capacity, been trying once a year to get it
I wouldn't call that "infected", that's a favour.
Oh, now it'll never happen. Major faux pas in idling, dude.
Been rock solid and stable for years. Better than some LET servers, and free. Won't hear me complaining.
Lack of locations though, probably due to whatever region you sign-up from. But hey, free servers in NL and UK, I'm not complaining.
please how to get Cloud Free Tier ?
Oracle seems to have relaxed a lot since the 2022 purge days when people randomly lost instances. These days, as long as you don’t let them sit idle for months or trip any policy violations (e.g., mining or traffic abuse), you’re usually fine.
They’ll sometimes shuffle your instances to new hardware zones during maintenance, but I haven’t had one vanish in a long while.
That said, I wouldn’t rely on it for anything critical. Oracle’s free tier is like a cat — friendly most days, but could scratch you without warning.
Backups and a migration plan to something like Hetzner or Contabo never hurt.
1 ARM core and 6GB of RAM since 2021, in their NL location.
I had to upgrade to PAYG earlier this year because my VM failed to migrate during planned maintenance due to lack of available capacity.
These ARM instances are overrated, when you consider the CPU and I/O performance. Huggingface spaces (free containers!) are quite a bit bigger (16G per instances), faster (both CPU and I/O), if you know how to use them.
That isn't a VM, is it?