Oracle Suspended My Account
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Oracle Suspended My Account
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#4That sucks, but honestly, this is why I did not jump on the Oracle cloud offering with all its free resources. It's Oracle, it's a trap. I assume they saw an activity spike they did not like and thus blocked you. Of course they don't feel bound to their TOS, again, it's Oracle...
Maybe someone here knows a fitting alternative? 1GB is not much data, but it might be over the limit for free tiers.
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#5I have never trusted Oracle with anything important.
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#6I have no clues beyond what's in the article, but I suspect that a combination of being from Turkey (author spells it that way) and being on the free tier triggered some sort of auto-script that attempts to detect crypto-mining or something.
Attempting to use a VPN to distract from the access from Turkey would probably also trigger some other auto-detector.
Free tiers give free tears; they're always fraught with danger.
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#7There is a pattern in technology companies and user reports of them:
* User does thing that appears to be fine.
* User is banned
* User has no way of fixing this, ask for redress, they are just cut out now.
I think this pattern is something that should be held in contempt and is eventually thrown away. If I had to guess, though, it won't be.
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#8Hmmm. It almost sounds like some hidden egress cost limit got reached and when he didn't have payment on file, it nuked the account.
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#9It's interesting to see that they also adopted the current industry standard of automatically banning people at random, not telling them why and not giving them any way to rectify it. But then, well, I mean, it's Oracle. What did you expect?
Normally something like this would put them on my "will never use any of their products nor work with them" shitlist, but it's Oracle, so they were already there since, like, ever.
Also, obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
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#10It's always the same: you get what you pay for. No company offers something for free: If it doesn't cost anything, you're the product:
They will use usage-data to optimize their commercial offerings, they will try out features in non-critical (aka: free) accounts first - so not to offend the paying customers.
In some cases (e.g. free web-mailers like gmx, Instagram, FB etc) the free versions are mainly vehicles for advertising.
Why should Oracle be any different? I cannot see their motivation to offer anything for free... they are *only* money-driven.