Oracle Free Tier being reduced....

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• DrNutella Member

  4:55AM

  Too late to try

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• varwww Member

  5:01AM

  thanks for the heads up, any idea how they are going to implement this on existing users?
• mustafamw3 Member, Patron Provider, LIR

  5:11AM edited 5:11AM

  @plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

  Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

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• PuDLeZ Member

  5:15AM

  @varwww said:
  thanks for the heads up, any idea how they are going to implement this on existing users?

  No clue but I'd guess they will email folks about it with some deadline and then charge folks after that date or kill the instances if there's no card/etc. attached. That or they will rename the current things to something new and "retire" the current thing to force you to recreate/migrate to the new system. GCP (google) did something similar with compute like forever ago for their free tier.

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• Levi Member

  5:48AM

  Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

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• wrn Member

  6:05AM

  @mustafamw3 said:

  @plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

  Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

  Hmmm when the terms applied?
• harrison Member

  6:05AM

  Seems its going down from 4 ocpu 24gb ram to 2 ocpu and 12 gb ram

  @Levi said:
  Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

  I think this is due to the compute demands of LLMs

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• igctt Member

  7:51AM

  it’s also lucrative for someone even as 2cores + 12GB.
• Fubukibox Member

  8:23AM

  What the fuck

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• dbadude Member

  8:30AM edited 8:32AM

  Never liked their cloud business even free i wouldn't recommend it.
  Too complex, too much engineered, their licensing is already a big scam. But their database is one of a kind.

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• xaoc Member

  10:34AM

  Still great for the price. 😀

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• faleddo Member

  1:13PM

  @mustafamw3 said:

  @plumberg said: Its probably going to impact existing free instances ?

  Yes, it will impact existing free ARM instances as well. A Reddit user commented that they contacted Oracle support and were told that existing Always Free ARM VMs exceeding the new limits would eventually be stopped unless the account is upgraded to a paid account and the excess resources are billed.

  How many free IPv4 addresses are left? Is it still 2 or 1?
• DataRecovery Member

  1:35PM

  @Levi said:
  Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

  Are they able to sign up?

  Never tried to register myself, but according to what people post here, by far not every applicant is accepted.
• JohnFilch123 Member

  1:38PM

  @DataRecovery said: Are they able to sign up?

  Depends. Oracle is very demanding and can reject you for multiple reasons.
• Mainfrezzer Member

  1:50PM

  @JohnFilch123 said:

  @DataRecovery said: Are they able to sign up?

  Depends. Oracle is very demanding and can reject you for multiple reasons.

  sometimes they dont even know why

  Im still amused.
• Levi Member

  2:20PM

  @DataRecovery said:

  @Levi said:
  Mjjs to blame. So many years it was nice and free.

  Are they able to sign up?

  Never tried to register myself, but according to what people post here, by far not every applicant is accepted.

  The mjj can be very determined if anything is offered for free.
• farsighter Member

  2:26PM

  Some clarification here:

  https://www.reddit.com/r/oraclecloud/comments/1u4lzkk/new_free_tier_limits_confirmed_by_oracle_support/
• JohnFilch123 Member

  2:43PM

  @Mainfrezzer said: sometimes they dont even know why

  Probably yes. However, if you pass their checks, servers are pretty stable, especially for the money.
• varwww Member

  2:45PM

  Anyone proactively reduced their instance? 😅
• xaoc Member

  3:02PM

  @varwww said:
  Anyone proactively reduced their instance? 😅

  I have. Don't need "unplanned maintenance". 😬

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• Mainfrezzer Member

  3:13PM

  @JohnFilch123 said:

  @Mainfrezzer said: sometimes they dont even know why

  Probably yes. However, if you pass their checks, servers are pretty stable, especially for the money.

  Oh yeah, but you also face the random terminations for no reasons. xD

  I did notice that the runners werent working anymore, went to contact them and then got back

  "Thank you for contacting us regarding your account. We have escalated your account for review and it was determined that it will remain closed. This decision is final."

  hella funny. Bought me an arm sbc then, solved that stupidity
• JohnFilch123 Member

  3:26PM

  @Mainfrezzer said: you also face the random terminations for no reason

  The way around it is convert to PAYG and keep it slightly outside of Free Tier, so they would not terminate a paying customer
• Mainfrezzer Member

  3:30PM edited 3:34PM

  @JohnFilch123 said:

  @Mainfrezzer said: you also face the random terminations for no reason

  The way around it is convert to PAYG and keep it slightly outside of Free Tier, so they would not terminate a paying customer

  dont laugh, but that was exactly what i was trying to do and how i noticed that i couldnt do anything on that tenancy anymore xD

  Edit:
  https://imgur.com/SyxQiOT
• JohnFilch123 Member

  3:39PM

  @Mainfrezzer said: that was exactly what i was trying to do

  Trying...well, I have not seen what exactly you did but it has been working for me for year...touch di wood
• gremeyer Member

  3:42PM

  Even Oracle isn't safe from the RAM shortage...

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• blip1945 Member

  4:36PM

  They used to be very lenient. My old account from 2019 are still alive and kickin'. Even with idle server it never got yanked and booted off. Mine even got port 25 open, which they closed for newer accounts. Combination of fuckers abusing them and soaring cost for storage and ram probably among the reason for the gimp.
• jorohe6515 Member

  5:45PM

  So what will be the new brand name of "always free"?
• Andru Member

  6:02PM

  @jorohe6515 said:
  So what will be the new brand name of "always free"?

  always half free.

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• kenjing789 Member

  7:10PM edited 7:11PM

  @dbadude said:
  Never liked their cloud business even free i wouldn't recommend it.
  Too complex, too much engineered, their licensing is already a big scam. But their database is one of a kind.

  I still like Oracle Cloud panel more than AWS or GCloud, but i agree that it very complex.

  For mathing, anyone with PAYG expect 13.5$ at end of this month and 27$ for next month if u dont take any action. That kinda too much for arm64 2c12g (324$/y).
  Assume you in exotic asia location like jp, sg. Im sure you can totally find better deal with better specs with that cost.

  Edit: Checked my mailbox and they mention nothing about this, so when will this apply ?
• governess Member

  7:16PM

  Yeah I'm a PAYG OCI customer only using the free tier + a bit of object storage, and the fact they've not sent any mail about this is a bit sketch.

  I think most of us knew this was too good to last forever, but it's still sad to see it finally go