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Any idea what regions don't act on DMCA request? I know London and Phoenix do.

What about Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Sydney, or Singapore?
 
I deleted my 1 instance in Amsterdam and unable to create a new one....
any ideas?
Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain AD-1. Create the instance in a different availability domain or try again later. If you specified a fault domain, try creating the instance without specifying a fault domain. If that doesn’t work, please try again later. Learn more about host capacity.

Estimated cost:€0.38/month
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Compute instance

Shape€0.00/month
Boot volume€0.38/month

Estimated total€0.38/month
 
I deleted my 1 instance in Amsterdam and unable to create a new one....
any ideas?
Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain AD-1. Create the instance in a different availability domain or try again later. If you specified a fault domain, try creating the instance without specifying a fault domain. If that doesn’t work, please try again later. Learn more about host capacity.

Estimated cost:€0.38/month
Summary



Compute instance

Shape€0.00/month
Boot volume€0.38/month

Estimated total€0.38/month
Demand is extremely high in EU.
You can either use the instance creation script or upgrade to PAYG then instantly create which ever instance you want.
 
Also any idea why its charging me for a 100GB boot volume?
I thought I am allowed 200GB.
 
Struggling waaay too m much....let me create ANOTHER oracle cloud account :-(
 
ok, help please....how do I set up this script?
I create an normal x86 vm, with 1gb,and1 cpu...are those even usable?
I can't even do a dnf install git.
dnf install git
Ksplice for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 28 MB/s | 5.1 MB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 23 MB/s | 3.6 MB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 Tools Community for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 4.7 MB/s | 634 kB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 Connectors Community for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 214 kB/s | 30 kB 00:00
Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 43 MB/s | 113 MB 00:02
Killed

Is it possible to create the script on my own machine?
I dont see a reason to use an oracle vm for this?
 
ok, help please....how do I set up this script?
I create an normal x86 vm, with 1gb,and1 cpu...are those even usable?
I can't even do a dnf install git.
dnf install git
Ksplice for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 28 MB/s | 5.1 MB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 23 MB/s | 3.6 MB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 Tools Community for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 4.7 MB/s | 634 kB 00:00
MySQL 8.0 Connectors Community for Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 214 kB/s | 30 kB 00:00
Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64) 43 MB/s | 113 MB 00:02
Killed
Yea that vm is usable since you won't be using it for anything else besides running the script.
You should use Ubuntu instead of the oracle image since the script was designed for an ubuntu env

Is it possible to create the script on my own machine?
I dont see a reason to use an oracle vm for this?
The script needs an existing subnet id etc to create the other machine so it won't work if you run it on your own machine.
 
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Ok thanks yes in ubuntu everything just work....how can I make sure the script is running properly?
Don't see anylaunch_instance.log or setup_and_info.log.
EDIT:
getting there...slowly
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/oracle-freetier-instance-creation/main.py", line 11, in
import oci
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'oci'

EDIT2:
ok I am assuming thats success:
2024-02-07 14:38:57,828 - INFO - Command: launch_instance
Output: {'status': 500, 'code': 'InternalError', 'message': 'Out of host capacity.'}

thanks @tm458
Lets wait and see....
 
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Just took down my instance. There's a story here but before I get flamed I will say, in my defence, I was knowingly being disgustingly lazy with this one...

The instance was running with open ports... Yes, I know, I know. But it was purely Sonarr/Readarr/Transmission/Jellyfin etc, so I didn't care about it. Figured if someone else wanted to share my media they could, lol.

I actually built it loosely with the intention to rebuild it later using some kind of IaC, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway.

Noticed things were slower than usual today and logged in now to see that somehow there was some Moreno mining software running in my Calibre container. It was this: https://xmrig.com/

Calibre runs some kind of remote desktop thing for its UI and that was accessible via the web, so I guess that's how they installed it. Once I stopped the container, it was fine but decided to nuke the entire instance because I didn't know how deep they got in.

Anyway, you live and you learn. Do stupid ****, and it will come back to bite you.
 
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Just took down my instance. There's a story here but before I get flamed I will say, in my defence, I was knowingly being disgustingly lazy with this one...

The instance was running with open ports... Yes, I know, I know. But it was purely Sonarr/Readarr/Transmission/Jellyfin etc, so I didn't care about it. Figured if someone else wanted to share my media they could, lol.

I actually built it loosely with the intention to rebuild it later using some kind of IaC, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway.

Noticed things were slower than usual today and logged in now to see that somehow there was some Moreno mining software running in my Calibre container. It was this: https://xmrig.com/

Calibre runs some kind of remote desktop thing for its UI and that was accessible via the web, so I guess that's how they installed it. Once I stopped the container, it was fine but decided to nuke the entire instance because I didn't know how deep they got in.

Anyway, you live and you learn. Do stupid ****, and it will come back to bite you.
So the entry point was calibre... the e-book thing?
 
So the entry point was calibre... the e-book thing?
From what I can infer, yes.

The real downfall is, because its a remote desktop and not just a simple web UI (like Sonarr/Readarr etc etc), looks like there is some way for an attacker to install stuff. And obviously because I left it open to the public internet... They exploited that.

The crypto miner was running only in the Calibre container. Once I killed the container, it stopped.

I see someone mentions the exact same situation here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/80729-support-linuxserverio-calibre/page/11/

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