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I'm still on unpaid tenancy and oracle docs say that reclaim servers which are under or overutilized. I use my oracle free servers (and one paid vps on hetzner
by IceWreck 3y ago
I'm still on unpaid tenancy and oracle docs say that reclaim servers which are under or overutilized.
I use my oracle free servers (and one paid vps on hetzner) as automatic cloud fallbacks if my homelab is inaccessible over the internet for some reason. Which means I fall in the underutilized category as most of the time workload is under 2%. So I "fake" work to prevent reclaimation by oracle and its worked well so far.
```
# Oracle Cloud reclaims idle resources
# 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...
- name: Create cronjob for minimum CPU utilization
ansible.builtin.cron:
name: fake work to prevent re-claimation
special_time: hourly
job: timeout 30s sha1sum /dev/zero
```