Been using it for months for a Minecraft server. Runs 10+ players with mods without much difficulty. I limited the RAM usage to 6GB though so that the Garbage Collector doesn't go nuts.
Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
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#42Of course, nobody really likes Oracle. But it is pretty cool and impressive that Ampere is able to trade blows favorably with something the size of Amazon.
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#43That's a sweet deal. How much is 100GB extra disk space per month?
2.55 dollars/month for an extra 100GB -- you get 200GB free but they are hard to come buy because of where they are located. I ended up getting the entire free tier as expected, except for the storage which wasn't available in the region I selected.
I'm _very_ happy with the setup, and here's a silly github workflow to deploy to oracle cloud: https://github.com/matthewaveryusa/oracle_actions
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#44"Oracle" and "free" in the same sentence raises alarms. I've seen many years of Oracle filling their "free" offerings with horrible trap doors into massive amounts of financial obligation that are way too easy to accidentally fall through.
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#45Been using it for months for a Minecraft server. Runs 10+ players with mods without much difficulty. I limited the RAM usage to 6GB though so that the Garbage Collector doesn't go nuts.
Wait, are you saying Java performs worse if you give it more memory to work with?
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#46It's a trap send no reply.
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#47Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers. They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance. This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my car…
Oh my god. Oracle having my address and credit card number is a nightmare scenario.
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#48That's a sweet deal. How much is 100GB extra disk space per month?
Block storage is $0.0425 / GB / month with ”balanced” I/O performance level whatever that means, file storage is $0.30 / GB / month.
Block volumes are attached to a specific virtual machine which views that thing as a local disk.
File storage is deployed on the virtual network, that thing is visible to all VMs in the network as an NFS server.
Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances
#49Be extremely wary of Oracle free tiers. They offered a free tier and forced me to choose a shape. I chose the smallest of the two “shapes” but it was apparently not free. This was not especially clear until I got my first bill (it was extortionate; like 60eur/mo for 1cpu/2g ram) so I stopped/removed the instance. This did not prevent me from being billed the next month, or the next month. They charged me until my car…
Man this is exactly the kind of dystopian bullshit I would expect from Oracle.
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#50How will any of these be available? If they're free and unrestricted, people will squat them and never give them up. Why would you ever give up any of these? And if you don't need payment details, you can just make multiple accounts to squat them.