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Oracle Cloud Free Tier

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  • luissousaluissousa Member
    edited September 2019

    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

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  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited September 2019

    Thats why its free:

    10/10.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    Neoon said: 10/10.

    The key word is "Hello"

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  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited September 2019

    @rm_ said:

    Neoon said: 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.

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  • Meh I can't sign up, credit card declined always.

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  • Zurich speedtest

    Geekbench process killed

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  • How long does it take to "activate" the account? I've received the initial email saying that they are reviewing my account, yesterday..

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  • @NanoG6 said:
    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?

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  • 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.

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    ynzheng said: Out of host capacity.

    ume said: I can't even create a free VM. It always shows me "Out of host capacity."

    Please always say which DC you tried and got this.

  • ume said: No matter what, this gives a bad impression.

    Lol, it's free!

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  • @JohnMiller92 said:

    ume said: No matter what, this gives a bad impression.

    Lol, it's free!

    Oracle says:
    It's the right impression.

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  • I have $300 to use over 4 weeks.
    I guess I HAVE TO. 😏

  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    JohnMiller92 said: Lol, it's free!

    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.

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  • @razorblade said:
    Got an instance running in Tokyo. Tried to create a second one but returns out of resource.

    Can you do a speedtest-cli please?

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  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    sanvit said: Can you do a speedtest-cli please?

    As posted before by others, the network is capped at about 50 Mbit.

    Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
    Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
    Testing from Oracle Public Cloud (xxxxx)...
    Selecting best server based on latency...
    Hosted by GLBB Japan (Tokyo) [46.63 km]: 2.427 ms
    Testing download speed........................................
    Download: 48.41 Mbit/s
    Testing upload speed..................................................
    Upload: 57.25 Mbit/s
  • @razorblade said:
    Got an instance running in Tokyo. Tried to create a second one but returns out of resource.

    u r so lucky

    can you let me know when you create your instance ?

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  • nickwarenickware Member
    edited September 2019

    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.

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  • djndjn Member
    edited September 2019
    -------------------------------------------------
     nench.sh v2019.07.20 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
     benchmark timestamp:    2019-09-19 17:47:34 UTC
    -------------------------------------------------
    
    Processor:    AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
    CPU cores:    2
    Frequency:    1996.248 MHz
    RAM:          982M
    Swap:         -
    Kernel:       Linux 4.15.0-1021-oracle x86_64
    
    Disks:
    loop0   88.7M  HDD
    loop1   14.1M  HDD
    loop2   83.4M  HDD
    loop3     89M  HDD
    sda   46.6G  HDD
    
    CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
        10.556 seconds
    CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
        20.502 seconds
    CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
        4.138 seconds
    
    ioping: seek rate
        min/avg/max/mdev = 348.3 us / 614.0 us / 17.5 ms / 340.6 us
    ioping: sequential read speed
        generated 1.13 k requests in 5.00 s, 281.5 MiB, 225 iops, 56.3 MiB/s
    
    dd: sequential write speed
        1st run:    48.64 MiB/s
        2nd run:    49.40 MiB/s
        3rd run:    49.40 MiB/s
        average:    49.15 MiB/s
    
    IPv4 speedtests
        your IPv4:    132.xxx.xx.xxxx
    
        Cachefly CDN:         5.29 MiB/s
        Leaseweb (NL):        5.55 MiB/s
        Softlayer DAL (US):   3.47 MiB/s
        Online.net (FR):      5.60 MiB/s
        OVH BHS (CA):         5.49 MiB/s
    
    No IPv6 connectivity detected
    -------------------------------------------------
    

    London

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  • @rm_ said:

    JohnMiller92 said: Lol, it's free!

    If you can't even create a VM, all it means you just gave your personal details and credit card to them for free.

    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

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  • Those Asian DCs are like Area51, except a horde of people actually showed up.

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  • @sanvit said:

    @razorblade said:
    Got an instance running in Tokyo. Tried to create a second one but returns out of resource.

    Can you do a speedtest-cli please?

    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

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  • @ynzheng said:

    @razorblade said:
    Got an instance running in Tokyo. Tried to create a second one but returns out of resource.

    u r so lucky

    can you let me know when you create your instance ?

    17 Sep. But my IP has already been blocked by GFW.

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  • 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

    Cachefly CDN:         5.58 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        4.61 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   0.00 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      4.82 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         4.81 MiB/s
    

    No IPv6 connectivity detected

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  • 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...

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