Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june • Hacker News Board

Re: Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june

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Post by sairam_h » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #9

sairam_h wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I didn't see your post here before! and thought i would help get the news reach more people as I don't think many people would be hanging out on reddit.

The more posts about this, the better in my view. I hope the info gets to the front page so Oracle don't get to defraud so many people.

Yeah, I will probably go and post on r/webdev subreddit so more devs will get this news.

Edit: yeah i couldn't because i had low karma on reddit. if someone can they should do it.

Re: Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june

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Post by ameon » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

sairam_h wrote: post #3

So I was shocked after seeing a reddit thread related to this here - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u4wqnj/psa_ora... If i didn't see this, I would have never known this fact. I had a chat with support and they mentioned that it is indeed the case. I'm not blaming oracle for reducing the quota, I know they have been very generous on their free tier but It would have been nice if they had atleast sent a…

reminds me of this quote "There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now."

Re: Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june

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Post by sva_ » Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #9

sairam_h wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I didn't see your post here before! and thought i would help get the news reach more people as I don't think many people would be hanging out on reddit.

The more posts about this, the better in my view. I hope the info gets to the front page so Oracle don't get to defraud so many people.

A lot more people will probably know about it tomorrow, when their billing alert goes off (if it even does.)

Re: Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june

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Post by sairam_h » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 4:46 AM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #8

sairam_h wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to try my luck and see if the grandfathered instances don't charged and this change is only for the new instance.

I hope that's the case, though I've reduced my instances down. I had the resources split into four VMs, so I just deleted two of them as I only really use one anyway. > I'm not blaming oracle for reducing the quota, I know they have been very generous on their free tier but It would have been nice if they had atleast sent a email about this I do blame them as "always free" should mean something and if there's an exis…

So i still had the instances to see if i will be billed. but so far I they didn't. I guess those changes are for only the new users and not the old. or they might have seen the reaction of the users and decided to back off.