Oracle Cloud Free Tier allows you to sign up for an Oracle Cloud account which provides a number of Always Free services and a Free Trial with US$300 of free credit to use on all eligible Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services for up to 30 days. The Always Free services are available for an unlimited period of time.
You get what you pay for.
This is my only free purchase that has given me a headache
What happen? Curious to know
nice try oracle, not today..
I have "purchased" one previously with ARM CPU and 24GB RAM free, and it's still going strong. connection speed is quite consistent, and the performance is quite good. The only thing heavy I throw on it is a Minecraft server in a docker. With around 8 players exploring the map the server didn't jitter (or didn't jitter enough for me to notice).
I guess this is also depends on how CPU heavy your neighbour's application is, as you are offered with 4 vCPU cores not 4 actual CPU cores.
I did have 2 down times sometime last year when Oracle have to fix a exploit and the service was recovered before next morning when I saw their emails. Didn't cause any damage and I didn't care much as it's free.. Ever since then I haven't had any trouble.
How much resources are allocated to it? Everything?
I’ve been hosting SkyFactory 4 and that tends to stutter with 4-5 people. But I haven’t allocated everything to it, I probably should, I am not using it for anything else.
didn't limit any resource, running the VM with a docker, and MC in docker with no resource limitation. No jitter at all.
It is worth noting my MC server have not got any high frequency red stone build, and people tends to explorer towards one direction all together so it isn't particularly resource hungry.
I remember trying, but can't get it working on ARM based architecture. What docker image did you use?
any works really, you just gotta remember to properly install a ARM version of JRE/JDK
Aaaah, I just went back and had a look again. I needed Bedrock edition which you can't install on ARM. Now that Java is included for free, I might give it another look and move the kids. Thanks
@jaymzrsa: IMO Java is king due to what you can do and features. Bedrock has some nice stuff but misses on some things.
is this good to host a 10gb website?
might not be a good idea to host a commercial website on a free hosting.
You couldn't pay me enough to even think about using Oracle…
One Rich A**hole Called Larry Ellison
No GPU included?
Why the hate? I think the Oracle Free tier is probably the most generous free hosting around. Sure, the hosting is not without its problems, but hey it is free.
Because it's oracle - they're a globally hated law-firm that also tends to dabble in a lil bit of tech.. I'd expect them to hook you in, then change their licensing terms and sue you for non-compliance.
Oracle are the worst. Bad business practitioner, abusers of open source software, and no longer providing compellingly differentiated core products (ie databases) in today's tech age.
I see. I don't know about their business reputation, but their free tier hosting is not bad. I probably wouldn't use it for anything business related, but for home projects I find it really great.
Their free tier AMD hosting is pretty useless, I think most people just use the ARM hosting.
Just wait until you are irreversibly deep into azure!
Deprecation of communication layers without warning, connection issues between SQL databases during overnight builds, unexplained speed reductions on $2k (pm) machines.
Plus their different support groups don't talk to each other, so even if you get a call every 2 hours it's still "we have no idea what's wrong yet". It's a sellers market unfortunately, i'm sure AWS is no better.
Yeah but it is all worth it as you are creating jobs for teams of people to manage the crazy complexity of running a hybrid cloud.
I don't recommend. I've had my VMs terminated and deleted without cause while hosting home projects after a couple months, despite being on the "Always Free" tier.
A quick search on Google shows many people having similar experiences. Either way, I only see this good for a "trial".
Yea, can't say mine has been trouble free, but I never had mine deleted. I had my VM IP address "disappear" one time out of the blue, I had to get a new one from the console and then re-point all the domain and networking rules to the new IP address. Annoying, but sorted in less than 1/2 hour.
Have been working on this on the weekend to run cloud hosted pi-hole as a fallback to my local one.
Seems like a solid deal, always free. More powerful than a pi (if you could even buy one these days).
How are you using it as the fallback? Do you have the IP of your cloud pi-hole as the secondary DNS server in your DHCP config?
Have not got it up and running yet. But my plan is to use wireguard to bring it through to my network, then have it as the secondary DNS server in my DHCP.
The wireguard setup on ubuntu SSH is not as simple as pivpn.
Lots of stuff flying around on the internet about how pi-hole and tailscale (some build of wireguard) play nicely together. Quite possibly worth googling some more.
Anything with Oracle in its name terrifies me!
You need to add a credit card to create a free account. Beware.
Good use case for Revolut.
I created an Ubuntu VM for fun, and the keypair that you download during provisioning doesn't work.
When you open a cloud shell, you can't login to the VM because it requires a username and password.
As far as I can tell there's no way to get a console.
Great cloud!
If you create a VM, do not use the generated keypair, it is RSA.
Generate your own ED25519 keypair and paste in the public key.
I would also suggest creating a local user in the provisioning step since you can't use the cloud shell to connect to your VM unless you do so.
https://www.oc-blog.com/2021/10/06/direct-console-access-to-…
The key pair works fine for using SSH tunnel through to the VM in powershell.
You can also try using Putty, but you'll need to convert the key to a putty specific file.
Default username is Ubuntu, no password.
I found that out recently. The one they generate doesn't work on Ubuntu 22.04. If you choose the older version, 20.04, it will work fine. I eventually did your workaround, generate one myself and uploaded it.
This is not documented anywhere I can find, so yea, problematic, but hey, it is free. :)
Would the free tier gives windows VM?
No it doesn't, but you can burn your free credits on one for a month.
You can't even bring your own licence, but I believe that is actually a MS limitation.
Thanks, I'll stay with free 12-months Windows from Alibaba + AWS then…
It's Oracle…..nothing comes for free. Best to avoid like the plague.
is this good to host a 10gb website?
Unobtainable deal. I've provided my personal credit card details with real name, real personal details, also contacted Customer Service Agent. Here is what they've replied me.
Subject: Oracle Cloud Sign Up
Incident: 220823-000298
Response By Email (Customer Service Agent) (23-Aug-2022 11:03 PDT)
Hello,
Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide.
Regards,
Customer Service Agent
Yes, it is an unobtainable deal.
Exactly same message.
I tried to create the account last weeken. And even I've got a message that creation will be takes about 15min.
But nothing happened until the next day.
After then I tried again and it keep showing the error message that the prepaid card can not use(but it wasn't)
I've tried all of my credit card attempt to clear cookie use another company email but all didn't worked.
And when I send a inquiry about this error bug.
They send a email after 2days later the same message as yours.
What a disappointed.
Can't sign up as well, very annoying, it keeps saying the same error card problem.
Isn't this the same as the long running deal