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Oracle Cloud gives away an arm vps with 4 CPUs, 24gb ram, and 200gb disk for free. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free https://www.oracle.com/cloud/

by sva_ 4y ago

Oracle Cloud gives away an arm vps with 4 CPUs, 24gb ram, and 200gb disk for free. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free

jackdh 4y ago
The problem with free tiers however is always free does not mean 'always' free.
- paxys 4y ago
  And $4/mo does not mean 'always' $4/mo, but it works today and is easily movable in case the terms become unfavorable then what's the problem?
  - jackdh 4y ago
    You're correct of course. My devils argument to that however is an increase from 0 to a natural number will always be a larger % increase than 4$ to 10$ etc. The other argument would be paid for services tend to be setup with the expectation that the price will increase ( inflation for instance ). Where as an always free gives the expectation that it'll always be free and as such a user might specifically design their system to stay within that limit.
saagarjha 4y ago
I’ve been unable to actually provision one of those, unfortunately.
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  Try the montreal DC. I got instant provisioning every time I tried (by killing the older instance and requesting a new one) .
  - saagarjha 4y ago
    Do you know how to change your datacenter? I got provisioned in San Jose and I don’t think there is a way to change it…
    - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
      Only by creating a new account to another person.
      - sva_ 4y ago
        And with a different CC, I think.
deltarholamda 4y ago
FWIW, if your Free Tier Oracle service seems to go "unused"--which isn't defined as far as I can tell, and the one I use as a DNS server was dinged for being "unused"--you run the risk of it being shut down and you have to restart it, unless you upgrade to a pay-as-you-go account. This is a new thing as of last week, I think. Also, Oracle Cloud's management interface is best described as "let's make this as complicated as AWS, but with more 'Enterprise-y' features, but somehow worse in every possible way." That said, I can't fault Oracle for being Oracle. I knew what I was getting myself into. And their "Always Free" tier is still free. And it does work well enough for my purposes.
- extra88 4y ago
  Here's what Oracle says: Reclamation of Idle Compute Instances Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: * CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 10% * Network utilization is less than 10% * Memory utilization is less than 10% (applies to A1 shapes only) https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
  - extra88 4y ago
    I need a Debian package that's a like a "mouse jiggler" for the CPU, a process that will automatically use enough CPU to satisfy Oracle.
    - Arnavion 4y ago
      Just run a `while :; do :; done` shell script under `nice` (to have lower priority than everything else) and then under `cpulimit` (to have an upper bound on CPU usage), or in a cgroup.
  - sva_ 4y ago
    Well, it was a good month with it then, I guess. My ArchArm box isn't really utilized that much. edit: stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2 \* 0.12;}' < /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1 And limit CPU use using cpulimit.

by sva_ 4y ago

Oracle Cloud gives away an arm vps with 4 CPUs, 24gb ram, and 200gb disk for free. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free

jackdh 4y ago

The problem with free tiers however is always free does not mean 'always' free.

paxys 4y ago
And $4/mo does not mean 'always' $4/mo, but it works today and is easily movable in case the terms become unfavorable then what's the problem?
- jackdh 4y ago
  You're correct of course. My devils argument to that however is an increase from 0 to a natural number will always be a larger % increase than 4$ to 10$ etc. The other argument would be paid for services tend to be setup with the expectation that the price will increase ( inflation for instance ). Where as an always free gives the expectation that it'll always be free and as such a user might specifically design their system to stay within that limit.

saagarjha 4y ago

I’ve been unable to actually provision one of those, unfortunately.

mardifoufs 4y ago
Try the montreal DC. I got instant provisioning every time I tried (by killing the older instance and requesting a new one) .
- saagarjha 4y ago
  Do you know how to change your datacenter? I got provisioned in San Jose and I don’t think there is a way to change it…
  - 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
    Only by creating a new account to another person.
    - sva_ 4y ago
      And with a different CC, I think.

deltarholamda 4y ago

FWIW, if your Free Tier Oracle service seems to go "unused"--which isn't defined as far as I can tell, and the one I use as a DNS server was dinged for being "unused"--you run the risk of it being shut down and you have to restart it, unless you upgrade to a pay-as-you-go account. This is a new thing as of last week, I think. Also, Oracle Cloud's management interface is best described as "let's make this as complicated as AWS, but with more 'Enterprise-y' features, but somehow worse in every possible way." That said, I can't fault Oracle for being Oracle. I knew what I was getting myself into. And their "Always Free" tier is still free. And it does work well enough for my purposes.

extra88 4y ago
Here's what Oracle says: Reclamation of Idle Compute Instances Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true: * CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 10% * Network utilization is less than 10% * Memory utilization is less than 10% (applies to A1 shapes only) https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm#compute__idleinstances https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
- extra88 4y ago
  I need a Debian package that's a like a "mouse jiggler" for the CPU, a process that will automatically use enough CPU to satisfy Oracle.
  - Arnavion 4y ago
    Just run a `while :; do :; done` shell script under `nice` (to have lower priority than everything else) and then under `cpulimit` (to have an upper bound on CPU usage), or in a cgroup.
- sva_ 4y ago
  Well, it was a good month with it then, I guess. My ArchArm box isn't really utilized that much. edit: stress --vm-bytes $(awk '/MemAvailable/{printf "%d\n", $2 \* 0.12;}' < /proc/meminfo)k --vm-keep -m 1 And limit CPU use using cpulimit.