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OCI it's pretty confusing. They have two free tiers, the expanded initial time based and the always free tier. As far as I can tell, when your time runs out o

OCI it's pretty confusing. They have two free tiers, the expanded initial time based and the always free tier. As far as I can tell, when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade. They deny a lot of credit cards they should accept. I have been unable to upgrade on any of my cards. Since provisioning always free tier a second time I've not had any issues with them turing off resources.

matt_heimer 4y ago
Having different tiers that are free is pretty typical. AWS has three free tiers - https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/ MS Azure has two free tiers - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/ Google Cloud has two free tiers - https://cloud.google.com/free https://cloud.google.com/free OCI has two free tiers - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
- locutous 4y ago
  The only cloud service I've had pro actively turn off provisioned resources is OCI. I've used all but Google cloud. That's a pretty distinctive difference IMHO. My post attempts to describe when and why. Though I have only used time based free credits on the other providers. Despite my always free having been up a year now I'm still reluctant to put production critical resources on it because of the experience. I'd be more willing if they would take one of my cards for an account upgrade as I otherwise generally like the service.
ricktdotorg 4y ago
> when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade yes, this is exactly it! nailed it
- antifa 4y ago
  This didn't happen to my single ARM VPS instance, so it might depend on what you were using.
adlpz 4y ago
I had this exact experience. Created the account, built a "home lab" style server over a couple of weeks, worked on several projects and experiments, all within the free tier limits. When the initial free credit expired, poof it all disappeared. Luckily the boot volume was still there so I reprovisioned with the same block storage and worked. I was a stressful morning though, I had no backups.

matt_heimer 4y ago

Having different tiers that are free is pretty typical. AWS has three free tiers - https://aws.amazon.com/free/ https://aws.amazon.com/free/ MS Azure has two free tiers - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/ Google Cloud has two free tiers - https://cloud.google.com/free https://cloud.google.com/free OCI has two free tiers - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

locutous 4y ago
The only cloud service I've had pro actively turn off provisioned resources is OCI. I've used all but Google cloud. That's a pretty distinctive difference IMHO. My post attempts to describe when and why. Though I have only used time based free credits on the other providers. Despite my always free having been up a year now I'm still reluctant to put production critical resources on it because of the experience. I'd be more willing if they would take one of my cards for an account upgrade as I otherwise generally like the service.

ricktdotorg 4y ago

> when your time runs out on the expanded free tier they turn everything off and you have to re provision into always free or do an account upgrade yes, this is exactly it! nailed it

antifa 4y ago
This didn't happen to my single ARM VPS instance, so it might depend on what you were using.

adlpz 4y ago

I had this exact experience. Created the account, built a "home lab" style server over a couple of weeks, worked on several projects and experiments, all within the free tier limits. When the initial free credit expired, poof it all disappeared. Luckily the boot volume was still there so I reprovisioned with the same block storage and worked. I was a stressful morning though, I had no backups.