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Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by mrguyorama »

kaba0 wrote: post #77
hereforphone wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They ruin everything they touch IMO (Java came to them ruined already to be fair)

And they do an excellent job as Java’s language steward. Java was revived and has many excellent research and development going for it. Project Loom, Panama, Valhalla came to mind. They also made a low-latency GC. Oracle is not a homogeneous entity.

Except while building the language into a nicer language, they also took the time and effort to rebuild the licenses around it so that it is harder to feel safe using it

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by thriftwy »

evandwight wrote: post #74
thriftwy wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this even legal? In most jurisdictions, you have to be a government to fine anybody. Sending frivolous charges may be considered fraud and also lead to chargebacks.

It's not a government fine. It's just an agreement in the contract specifying a payment is due if your card declines.

I'm not sure that is legal either. You can charge for some product or service but, unless you are a licensed bank, you can't lend out money and charge for overdraft, which is basically something they're doing here.

And even a bank can only do it against accounts open in that bank.

Re: Oracle Giving Away 4-Core 24 GB Memory Ampere Instances

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Post by papreclip »

dijit wrote: post #34

Be 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…

I had the same experience with AWS ec2 free tier that ran out after a year and started billing me. They bill me $17/mo now even though the machine was shut down and AWS account was closed 2 months ago

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Post by frankjr »

I signed a few months ago and overall the experience have been positive. Initially there was an issue with the availability of the A1 instances (Switzerland North) but after a few trials I managed to grab one. You also get some free credit to spend during the first month ($300 I believe) so I was running with 32 vCPUs, 128GB ram, and 32Gbps network. I have now downscaled to the free tier.

I was a bit disappointed with the selection of operating systems but fortunately you can upload your own image (QCOW2) and create an instance from it (I'm running Alpine now). You can even upload your VMs directly from VirtualBox but I haven't tried that (right click -> Export to OCI).

Getting IPv6 working was a bit of a hassle because it's not enabled by default and you need to make changes in multiple places [0] but it works fine now. There's a good enough Cost Analysis section where you can see your current usage broken down to days and you can create alerts based on that. Overall I find the Administration Console to be more pleasant than Amazon's but still miles behind Scaleway's.

[0] https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/ipv6-on-o...

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Post by notreallyserio »

alx__ wrote: post #38
chomp wrote: post #21

I played around with Oracles free tier. When you first sign up, you must choose a “home” region. You cannot add another region on the free plan. These awesome free instances are very limited stock. You have no way of knowing if the region you choose has stock of the desired instances before you select the region. You may not change your “home” region. You will get sales phone calls. Caveat emptor.

So when i sign up I should the phone number of my nemesis? Noted.

I typically use some number I find on the company's website, like: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/contact/ Same for web feedback forms where I don't want follow-up questions, sales@domain.biz.
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