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Oracle OCI will randomly shut your instances down, which is super annoying. I stopped bothering to boot them back up again. Used to be a huge proponent, it wa

Oracle OCI will randomly shut your instances down, which is super annoying. I stopped bothering to boot them back up again. Used to be a huge proponent, it was a good 4 years of freebies. But this too shall pass.

unmole 3y ago
> Oracle OCI will randomly shut your instances down, which is super annoying. In the 3+ years of running 2 instances on OCI, I'm yet to see this.
Eldt 3y ago
And you won't be able to start up again if they don't have enough capacity for your free instance
mappu 3y ago
Do you know what causes this to happen? Mine's been doing alright with uptime 05:20:09 up 631 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 on my "Always Free" instance.
- Deathmax 3y ago
  You might not be on a "Always Free" account then. AFAIK, you're not subject to reclamation if you add a payment method to the account. Here's the link to their documentation on reclamation of 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... > 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 15% > * Network utilization is less than 15% > * Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only) And here's the email that I get whenever they reclaim an instance: > Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has reclaimed idle Always Free compute resources from Always Free customers by stopping the compute instance(s). Reclaiming idle resources allows OCI to efficiently provide services to Always Free customers. Your account had one or more idle compute instances that have been stopped. You can restart your compute instance as long as the associated compute shape is available in your region. Your Boot and Block Volumes remain unchanged and available to you. In the future, you can keep idle compute instances from being stopped by converting your account to Pay As You Go (PAYG). With PAYG, you will not be charged as long as your usage for all OCI resources remains within the Always Free limits.
  - mappu 3y ago
    Yes - so i'm not sure why it doesn't seem to actually happen to me, my instance definitely sits idle like that a lot. All free Oracle accounts must have a payment method, it was mandatory when creating the account. Screenshot of my "Always Free" banner in the Oracle web interface: https://imgur.com/a/hTZfkek https://imgur.com/a/hTZfkek
gempir 3y ago
It's not super random. They email your before at least. Mine has been shut down once in 3 months. Which I think is fair enough considering I run 2 machines with 8gb RAM each and 2 arm cores each. Insane value.
- raffraffraff 3y ago
  Why not run two machines with 12gb RAM each? There's a total of 24gb available on the always free tier. I'm running 4x 6gb nodes in a k3s cluster.
  - gempir 3y ago
    Then I do that. I just misremembered the exact sizes because I haven't logged in in so long.

unmole 3y ago

> Oracle OCI will randomly shut your instances down, which is super annoying. In the 3+ years of running 2 instances on OCI, I'm yet to see this.

Eldt 3y ago

And you won't be able to start up again if they don't have enough capacity for your free instance

mappu 3y ago

Do you know what causes this to happen? Mine's been doing alright with uptime 05:20:09 up 631 days, 23:10, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 on my "Always Free" instance.

Deathmax 3y ago
You might not be on a "Always Free" account then. AFAIK, you're not subject to reclamation if you add a payment method to the account. Here's the link to their documentation on reclamation of 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... > 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 15% > * Network utilization is less than 15% > * Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only) And here's the email that I get whenever they reclaim an instance: > Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has reclaimed idle Always Free compute resources from Always Free customers by stopping the compute instance(s). Reclaiming idle resources allows OCI to efficiently provide services to Always Free customers. Your account had one or more idle compute instances that have been stopped. You can restart your compute instance as long as the associated compute shape is available in your region. Your Boot and Block Volumes remain unchanged and available to you. In the future, you can keep idle compute instances from being stopped by converting your account to Pay As You Go (PAYG). With PAYG, you will not be charged as long as your usage for all OCI resources remains within the Always Free limits.
- mappu 3y ago
  Yes - so i'm not sure why it doesn't seem to actually happen to me, my instance definitely sits idle like that a lot. All free Oracle accounts must have a payment method, it was mandatory when creating the account. Screenshot of my "Always Free" banner in the Oracle web interface: https://imgur.com/a/hTZfkek https://imgur.com/a/hTZfkek

gempir 3y ago

It's not super random. They email your before at least. Mine has been shut down once in 3 months. Which I think is fair enough considering I run 2 machines with 8gb RAM each and 2 arm cores each. Insane value.

raffraffraff 3y ago
Why not run two machines with 12gb RAM each? There's a total of 24gb available on the always free tier. I'm running 4x 6gb nodes in a k3s cluster.
- gempir 3y ago
  Then I do that. I just misremembered the exact sizes because I haven't logged in in so long.