Do you want a free VPS? - Always free - from Oracle

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So I'm just about to get this up and started.
I'm sharing the basic tutorial here and how you could sign up.
A small temporary fee of 1EUR is charged to verify the account, but it gets paid back.

The system is always free, until you decide to upgrade.

medium.com

Create free ubuntu vps in oraclecloud with nginx “always free”

Why should you choose oracle?
medium.com medium.com

Let's test and see the performance.
I chose Germany as my location.
 
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My thoughts post (will edit as I proceed).

The sign up was quick. The provisioning of the first instance was flawless.
I'm running Ubuntu server and the SSH session through Bitvise works without issues.
The download speed is fast.

I'm on an always free instance.

I've installed a few packages and I will do further testing as I go on.
So far, first impressions are good.

Free VPS Specs:
  • VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro: E2-based standard compute. Processor: AMD EPYC 7551. Base frequency 2.0 GHz, max boost frequency 3.0 GHz.
  • 1GB RAM
  • 480 Mbps
  • Free public IP
  • File encryption
  • Compute (up to two instances)
  • Autonomous Database (up to two database instances)
  • Load Balancing (one load balancer)
  • Block Volume (up to 100 GB total storage)
  • Object Storage (up to 20 GiB)
  • Vault (up to 20 keys and up to 150 secrets)
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
Until the free-riders give the service constipation.

Do keep us informed of its performance under regular use.
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Cool, will do.

The specs are pretty good. It's by far the best free VPS I've ever come across spec wise.
This article on medium was posted in 2019.
Going by search ratios, I believe they've got hundreds of these running.
Also, the free VPS is automatically provisioned on a "shared" service.
So no, it won't constipate them at all.

It's great.
 
SpaceIgniter said:
VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro: E2-based standard compute. Processor: AMD EPYC 7551. Base frequency 2.0 GHz, max boost frequency 3.0 GHz.
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Would guess something like 2-4 VM's per thread since shared, so ~200 VM's per CPU? Should be interesting how they handle noisy neighbors.
Can you actually stress the vCPU for a while and see what performance you get? Something that runs ~10 minutes should be fine.
 
Johnatan56 said:
Would guess something like 2-4 VM's per thread since shared, so ~200 VM's per CPU? Should be interesting how they handle noisy neighbors.
Can you actually stress the vCPU for a while and see what performance you get? Something that runs ~10 minutes should be fine.
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I have effectively stressed it for more than 8 hours last night.
I deployed a large install on my 2nd free instance.
Doing it over now, since the changes I had to do above.

It's a 1 Core vCPU per VM\VPS\Instance

No speed issues so far.
 
You get 2 vm's for free? That's quite nice. I see they have a region planned for Joburg.
 
Hi everyone, thought i'll give this service a test and now i am feeling very scammed.
they charged me 1 euro...expected. immediately they charged me another one, and a few days later another euro.
any idea whats going on ?how do i remove my credit card from there?
i am busy with the support but they not helping.
 
bar1 said:
Hi everyone, thought i'll give this service a test and now i am feeling very scammed.
they charged me 1 euro...expected. immediately they charged me another one, and a few days later another euro.
any idea whats going on ?how do i remove my credit card from there?
i am busy with the support but they not helping.
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It's impossible to charge your account, unless you chose to upgrade.
So the fault is your own.
 
bar1 said:
Hi everyone, thought i'll give this service a test and now i am feeling very scammed.
they charged me 1 euro...expected. immediately they charged me another one, and a few days later another euro.
any idea whats going on ?how do i remove my credit card from there?
i am busy with the support but they not helping.
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Did you pay your SABC TV license?
 
|tera| said:
What do you mean? It's a Virtual Machine. Not a downloader.
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I think that what he means is if he were to run his own VPN exit point, RTorrent, libtorrent or NNTP server, how much bandwidth would he be allowed to consume?
 
RonSwanson said:
I think that what he means is if he were to run his own VPN exit point, RTorrent, libtorrent or NNTP server, how much bandwidth would he be allowed to consume?
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There's no bandwidth limit as far as I see.
I've probably done 20GB this week on the free tier with no issues. I wouldn't use it for downloading torrents or anything else. That's not the purpose.

 
|tera| said:
It's impossible to charge your account, unless you chose to upgrade.
So the fault is your own.
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All i did was sign up. i didn't even have the time to set up a VM yet.

support said it's due to verification process, and the money is only pending but wont be charged...
 
bar1 said:
All i did was sign up. i didn't even have the time to set up a VM yet.

support said it's due to verification process, and the money is only pending but wont be charged...
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Ok. That's good then.
Just remember not to upgrade.
As I said in the first post. There is a small charge to verify your account. It is refunded though.
 
|tera| said:
Ok. That's good then.
Just remember not to upgrade.
As I said in the first post. There is a small charge to verify your account. It is refunded though.
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thanks , you said 1 euro and i already got charged 3 so just wondering when this will end....lets see .
 
bar1 said:
thanks , you said 1 euro and i already got charged 3 so just wondering when this will end....lets see .
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Strange. Hope you get refunded soon. I'm sure they’ll fix it.
 
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