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A lot of people confuse the free trial account that lets you use free tier resources with a pay-as-you-go account that only uses free tier resources. The former
by bityard 2y ago
A lot of people confuse the free trial account that lets you use free tier resources with a pay-as-you-go account that only uses free tier resources. The former WILL eventually be terminated without notice, the latter usually does not unless you are doing something they see as suspicious.
At any rate, I've had mine since the start of Covid Times and never had problems provisioning an instance.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoThis is anecdotal but virtually everyone I see getting excited about the free tier on Oracle is hoping to max out their usage in an exploitative way, though they likely don’t see it that way. I think in these situations you have to imagine what would be sustainable if every user did the same. If you exceed that, you’re probably going to meet some friction.
- TiredOfLife 2y agoThe thing is Oracle is closing accounts that don't use resources.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoCould this be because they’re allocating resources in a wasteful manner that they could allocate to potential customers?
- worthless-trash 2y agoCovid Times - Sounds like a great name for an early 2020's typeface.
- fuzztester 2y agoit was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities
- coolspot 2y agoI had a pay-go account (with valid CC and OTP) for 4 years with an idle empty server and the whole account was terminated without recourse.
- benterix 2y ago> the latter usually does not unless you are doing something they see as suspicious. I used it as a gitlab server, it was regularly updated, there were no other services running. It wasn't even used intensively, maybe 2-3 pushes a day. And yet, one day they just closed everything. No suprise as everybody was warning me they would do it but still it felt very weird.