Oracle Cloud Free Tier

berndy2001 · October 2019

I selected "Assign a public IP address" when I created the instance.

daxterfellowes · October 2019

@creep said:

@rm_ said:

daxterfellowes said: us-phoenix-1, us-ashburn-1, and Zurich (don't know the region code). So far all have been reasonably consistent in provisioning of the free tier services

How do you create free tier VMs in 3 regions? Those are tied to the home region, have you found a way around that, or use 3 separate accounts?

definitely multiple accounts, while i'm still stuck being declined for 3 weeks without any response to my issue. I even willing to give them my ID, passport photo, my naked photo, call/video call me, anything they want. i have debit/credit cards, whatever cards they need. and their response is "we are still waiting for internal team investigation."

Correct. Three physical different accounts. I have never had a manual verification - they have all been instantiated in less than 5 minutes and usable. Is it possible you're outside the US or using a payment method outside the US?

SpeedTest · October 2019

I have more than one too

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest Monster v.1.4.4 2019-10-09 
 Region: Europe  https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
 Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sh speedtest.sh -Europe
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 OS           : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64
 CPU Model    : AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
 CPU Cores    : 2 @ 1996.249 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
 Total Space  : 39G (3.0G ~8% used)
 Total RAM    : 371 MB / 987 MB (463 MB Buff)
 Total SWAP   : 271 MB / 8191 MB
 Uptime       : 7 days 1:37
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ASN & ISP    : AS31898, Oracle Corporation
 Organization : Oracle Public Cloud
 Location     : Zurich, Switzerland / CH
 Region       : Zurich
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 1375  (POOR)
   Multi Core : 1554

 ## IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     :  25.6 MB/s
   sha256     : 199 MB/s
   md5sum     :  95.9 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 755.0 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 2560.0 MB/s

 Disk Write Speed:
   1st run    : 54.2 MB/s
   2dn run    : 49.8 MB/s
   3rd run    : 50.4 MB/s
   -----------------------
   Average    : 51.5 MB/s

 ## Europe Speedtest

 Location                         Upload           Download         Ping   
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 Speedtest.net                    50.58 Mbit/s     1.86 Mbit/s      1.69 ms
 Ireland, Dublin (Digiweb)        42.25 Mbit/s     31.07 Mbit/s     39.055 ms
 UK, London (Community Fibre)     47.89 Mbit/s     47.57 Mbit/s     24.746 ms
 Netherlands, Amsterdam (MaxiTEL) 48.43 Mbit/s     48.11 Mbit/s     34.726 ms
 Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET)        49.78 Mbit/s     48.25 Mbit/s     23.724 ms
 Germany, Munich (InterNetX)      48.35 Mbit/s     48.69 Mbit/s     12.236 ms
 Denmark, Copenhagen (Fiberby)    48.70 Mbit/s     48.63 Mbit/s     13.124 ms
 Sweden, Stockholm (SUNET)        49.55 Mbit/s     43.36 Mbit/s     39.678 ms
 Norway, Oslo (NextGenTel)        49.40 Mbit/s     47.14 Mbit/s     25.109 ms
 Spain, Madrid (Adamo)            49.99 Mbit/s     39.57 Mbit/s     46.571 ms
 Portugal, Lisbon (Evolute)       45.51 Mbit/s     47.23 Mbit/s     56.177 ms
 Italy, Rome (Unidata)            48.83 Mbit/s     46.47 Mbit/s     12.374 ms
 Czechia, Prague (365internet)    48.22 Mbit/s     37.46 Mbit/s     12.446 ms
 Austria, Vienna (Fonira)         49.94 Mbit/s     47.08 Mbit/s     17.244 ms
 Poland, Warsaw (Orange)          50.26 Mbit/s     47.96 Mbit/s     23.086 ms
 Slovakia, Kosice (ANTIK)         46.88 Mbit/s     48.23 Mbit/s     22.868 ms
 Ukraine, Kyiv (KyivStar)         48.48 Mbit/s     42.49 Mbit/s     40.219 ms
 Latvia, Riga (Bite)              47.03 Mbit/s     47.89 Mbit/s     39.811 ms
 Russia, St.Petersburg (Prometey) 47.65 Mbit/s     35.63 Mbit/s     51.486 ms
 Russia, Moscow (MTS)             11.53 Mbit/s     37.22 Mbit/s     74.498 ms
 Romania, Bucharest (Orange)      41.98 Mbit/s     48.97 Mbit/s     69.909 ms
 Greece, Athens (GRNET)           44.53 Mbit/s     46.18 Mbit/s     46.044 ms
 Turkey, Istanbul (Radore)        50.18 Mbit/s     42.90 Mbit/s     51.140 ms
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SpeedTest · October 2019

the next one in brazil

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Speedtest Monster v.1.4.4 2019-10-09 
 Region: South-America  https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
 Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sh speedtest.sh -South-America
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 OS           : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
 Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64
 CPU Model    : AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
 CPU Cores    : 2 @ 1996.249 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
 CPU Flags    : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
 Load Average : 0.17, 0.10, 0.06
 Total Space  : 39G (3.2G ~9% used)
 Total RAM    : 318 MB / 987 MB (438 MB Buff)
 Total SWAP   : 261 MB / 8191 MB
 Uptime       : 4 days 23:24
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ASN & ISP    : AS31898, Oracle Corporation
 Organization : Oracle Public Cloud
 Location     : Seattle, United States / US
 Region       : Washington
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:

  Single Core : 1411  (POOR)
   Multi Core : 1548

 ## IO Test

 CPU Speed:
    bzip2     :  27.5 MB/s
   sha256     : 198 MB/s
   md5sum     : 105 MB/s

 RAM Speed:
   Avg. write : 839.7 MB/s
   Avg. read  : 2457.6 MB/s

 Disk Write Speed:
   1st run    : 54.7 MB/s
   2dn run    : 51.0 MB/s
   3rd run    : 51.9 MB/s
   -----------------------
   Average    : 52.5 MB/s

 ## South America Speedtest

 Location                             Upload           Download        Ping   
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 Speedtest.net                        37.19 Mbit/s     28.05 Mbit/s    * 263.336 ms
 Brazil, Sao Paulo (Vogel Telecom)    49.68 Mbit/s     47.39 Mbit/s      2.928 ms
 Brazil, Fortaleza (Claro)            39.36 Mbit/s     37.54 Mbit/s     91.657 ms
 Colombia, Bogota (Level 3)           45.18 Mbit/s     45.46 Mbit/s    114.330 ms
 Ecuador, Quito (Iplanet)             12.92 Mbit/s     20.35 Mbit/s    129.163 ms
 Peru, Lima (Fiberluxperu)            50.05 Mbit/s     36.74 Mbit/s     78.477 ms
 Bolivia, La Paz (Sirio)              46.72 Mbit/s     23.85 Mbit/s     99.929 ms
 Paraguay, Asuncion (Personal)        47.00 Mbit/s     46.24 Mbit/s     62.712 ms
 Chile, Santiago (Netglobalis)        49.22 Mbit/s     1.58 Mbit/s      48.388 ms
 Argentina, Buenos Aires (Telefonica) 50.16 Mbit/s     44.74 Mbit/s     28.775 ms
 Uruguay, Montevideo (Antel)          49.53 Mbit/s     44.32 Mbit/s     38.190 ms
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Vova1234 · October 2019

Idiots with Oracle thought I was a scammer and did not activate the account.

At first I didn’t let me register because I indicated my standard mail.ru mail. Then I changed to yandex.ua, passed the registration, and they did not want to activate the account.

ShalaWorks · October 2019

@Vova1234 said:
Idiots with Oracle thought I was a scammer and did not activate the account.

At first I didn’t let me register because I indicated my standard mail.ru mail. Then I changed to yandex.ua, passed the registration, and they did not want to activate the account.

the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

ese_enzo · October 2019

Anyone use successfully any prepaid card?

skizoid · October 2019

@rafaelscs said:
I send mail to support and ip reserved is free

There is any limitation for how many ip reserved that we can create?

xaoc · October 2019

@skizoid said:

@rafaelscs said:
I send mail to support and ip reserved is free

There is any limitation for how many ip reserved that we can create?

50 public ips.

Vova1234 · October 2019

ShalaWorks said: the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

This morning oracle charges me 105 euros from my bankcard. My account was not activated. On such garbage services, I always indicate virtual cards so as not to fall for money in shitservices.

NanoG6 · October 2019

Don't worry it wont be charged/billed. Anyway, why don't you try with another email address like gmail or yahoo? Just make sure you don't use any adblock, or different geolocated IP address while registering.
For lifetime free VPS from Oracle, it worth the hassle.

msallak1 · October 2019

@Vova1234 said:

ShalaWorks said: the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

This morning oracle charges me 105 euros from my bankcard. My account was not activated. On such garbage services, I always indicate virtual cards so as not to fall for money in shitservices.

They charged you 105 even though you haven't used their service yet?

Maybe just a temporary charge, but that's very high one!

Vova1234 · October 2019

msallak1 said: They charged you 105 even though you haven't used their service yet?

Yes. My account is not even activated. Because I registered with the ukrainian ip and indicated mail from *[at]mail.ru.

InnerLife · October 2019

@Vova1234 said:

ShalaWorks said: the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

This morning oracle charges me 105 euros from my bankcard. My account was not activated. On such garbage services, I always indicate virtual cards so as not to fall for money in shitservices.

It's a temporary charge. Was the same for me. Had not enough funds on card and successfully registered again with the new one.

Neoon · October 2019

@ese_enzo said:
Anyone use successfully any prepaid card?

Revolut works fine, even the virtual one, which you can set limits.

Neoon · October 2019

@InnerLife said:

@Vova1234 said:

ShalaWorks said: the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

This morning oracle charges me 105 euros from my bankcard. My account was not activated. On such garbage services, I always indicate virtual cards so as not to fall for money in shitservices.

It's a temporary charge. Was the same for me. Had not enough funds on card and successfully registered again with the new one.

No, a temp charge is 1EUR not 105EUR.

InnerLife · October 2019

@Neoon said:

@InnerLife said:

@Vova1234 said:

ShalaWorks said: the same thing happened to me, I had to make another account with another ip and address and the account works without problems now

This morning oracle charges me 105 euros from my bankcard. My account was not activated. On such garbage services, I always indicate virtual cards so as not to fall for money in shitservices.

It's a temporary charge. Was the same for me. Had not enough funds on card and successfully registered again with the new one.

No, a temp charge is 1EUR not 105EUR.

For me it was a 121.41 EUR temporary charge from "ORACLE IRELAND" and 1 EUR charge a few days later (even after account verification).

Neoon · October 2019

@InnerLife said:
For me it was a 121.41 EUR temporary charge from "ORACLE IRELAND" and 1 EUR charge a few days later (even after account verification).

Did you deployed the largest server Oracle had?

InnerLife · October 2019

@Neoon said:

@InnerLife said:
For me it was a 121.41 EUR temporary charge from "ORACLE IRELAND" and 1 EUR charge a few days later (even after account verification).

Did you deployed the largest server Oracle had?

This charge was a part of manual account verification.

msallak1 · October 2019

I am wondering why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

FAT32 · October 2019

This is why we can't have nice things.

Meanwhile in China, someone created 12 accounts, 1 region for each account so that he can get free servers for all regions.

tgl · October 2019

@msallak1 said:
I am wondering why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

Because they dont want to be the product.

ITLabs · October 2019

@msallak1 said:
I am wondering why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

Who will you blame when your multi-million-dollar-blog disappears along with the free servers?

tgl · October 2019

I did some QA myself, for Google Inbox, its the same here, people doing free QA for Oracle, well not free, $0.50/month's worth for Oracle.

rm_ · October 2019

msallak1 said: why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

For some of the locations offered (Japan, Korea, India, even Brazil!), these are nice for the bandwidth included, for VPN etc. But for general use the CPU is capped and way too slow. Even Atom N2800 in the 4 euro OVH KS1 server is faster, and by a lot.

msallak1 · October 2019

@rm_ said:

msallak1 said: why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

For some of the locations offered (Japan, Korea, India, even Brazil!), these are nice for the bandwidth included, for VPN etc. But for general use the CPU is capped and way too slow. Even Atom N2800 in the 4 euro OVH KS1 server is faster, and by a lot.

Still more faster and reliable than oversold summer hosts

xaoc · October 2019

@rm_ said:

msallak1 said: why people still buying servers if they can get two free servers with 10TB free bandwidth?

For some of the locations offered (Japan, Korea, India, even Brazil!), these are nice for the bandwidth included, for VPN etc. But for general use the CPU is capped and way too slow. Even Atom N2800 in the 4 euro OVH KS1 server is faster, and by a lot.

But does kimsufi have ~~480~~50mbps?

default · October 2019

@Neoon said:

@ese_enzo said:
Anyone use successfully any prepaid card?

Revolut works fine, even the virtual one, which you can set limits.

Revolut does not work. It was refused, even though card was charged.

dragon1993 · October 2019

__> @default said:

@Neoon said:

@ese_enzo said:
Anyone use successfully any prepaid card?

Revolut works fine, even the virtual one, which you can set limits.

Revolut does not work. It was refused, even though card was charged.

Me too

Neoon · October 2019

@dragon1993 said:
__> @default said:

@Neoon said:

@ese_enzo said:
Anyone use successfully any prepaid card?

Revolut works fine, even the virtual one, which you can set limits.

Revolut does not work. It was refused, even though card was charged.

Me too

Maybe they started blocking revolut/prepaid cards, no idea.

havocx · October 2019

Been playing with this. They're more powerful than GCP's free one. But haven't managed to get anything served over port 80. No idea why. Their network stuff is super confusing

ITLabs · October 2019

@havocx said:
Been playing with this. They're more powerful than GCP's free one. But haven't managed to get anything served over port 80. No idea why. Their network stuff is super confusing

See this.

havocx · October 2019

@ITLabs said:

@havocx said:
Been playing with this. They're more powerful than GCP's free one. But haven't managed to get anything served over port 80. No idea why. Their network stuff is super confusing

See this.

Just had a look - and that is indeed the cause! Thanks.

...hmm...with that sorted this could be quite a decent setup for wordpress. Each box has a rather anemic upload on ~5mbps...so will probably try out their free 10mbps loaderbalancer.

mehargags · October 2019

The interface is an absolute nightmare. They are horribly understaffed right now. Someone from Oracle called me up to have a feedback, I told them I am having bigtime problems understanding simple things, she says put all your feedback in a mail and send... and bang, closed the call.

rm_ · October 2019

mehargags said: I told them I am having bigtime problems understanding simple things

Probably made a note on your profile, customer is stupid :)

FloydStan · October 2019

Verify is extremely strict

xaoc · October 2019

@mehargags said:
The interface is an absolute nightmare.

It's just new. Use it for a couple days and you'll figure everything out. Read this thread too as it has quite a lot if info on how to get started. I've seen pictures too!

mehargags · October 2019

So the availability of 46GB Storage is Total or 46GB x 2 (92GB) VMs in Free Tier ?

farsighter · October 2019

I've installed a graphic environment, LXDE desktop + NX server on my VM but as soon as I launch a browser (FF/Chrome) it just hangs.. seems VM has no power to carry it

ras07 · October 2019

Confusing interface.

ras07 · October 2019

Can't figure out how to access the instance I created. the Public IP Address shows "Unavailable". Chat help was singularly unhelpful. Have I done something wrong or is their IP pool exhausted?

havocx · October 2019

@ras07 said:
Can't figure out how to access the instance I created. the Public IP Address shows "Unavailable". Chat help was singularly unhelpful. Have I done something wrong or is their IP pool exhausted?

You need to assign an IP when creating the instance...its hidden under the show adv

ras07 · October 2019

@havocx said:

You need to assign an IP when creating the instance...its hidden under the show adv

Ah, found it, thanks. Crazy that it's so hidden. (It also says you can "easily" add it later, but I looked everywhere and didn't find a way to do that.)

ras07 · October 2019

Yikes. I get that free is free, but this is the most convoluted system I've ever used.

ras07 · October 2019

What should be the most simple of tasks - opening a port - is a nightmare.

NanoG6 · October 2019

Dude, you're like chatting with yourself, calm down

ras07 · October 2019

I am.

I will.

In a minute.

ras07 · October 2019

But seriously - this is bad.

hzr · October 2019

You are supposed to provision with Terraform or the API. The UI is not meant to be used.

ras07 · October 2019

@hzr said:
You are supposed to provision with Terraform or the API. The UI is not meant to be used.

For huge customers, sure. I get that. But that totally defeats the marketing purpose of the free offering. It's supposedly there to show you how easy and powerful it is. What it really does is show you how difficult and limited it is.

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