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

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Post by FastEatSlow » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

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.

I've been using it for a year for one of their Ampere instances and haven't received any phone calls. Might be because I'm in the UK (region UK South (London)), I imagine they're much more call happy in countries where the laws are looser.

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

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Post by slig » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

_red wrote: post #68

Can't even sign up. Gives generic error about "payment / registration failed" - its a regular credit card that I use everywhere. Oh well...kinda glad to be honest. Knowing Oracle it will eventually become a nightmare anyway (whoops, we accidentally billed you $70 for the free-tier, but you need to manually call this long-distance number between the hours of 9am-4pm to reverse the charge and this also happens to be ou…

Had this exactly error couple of weeks ago. Tried multiple good CC and it never worked. Blessing in disguise.

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

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Post by heavyset_go » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #2

Can you run a small business on this, indefinitey, for free?

It's free because no one would choose them over AWS, GCP, etc if it cost anything. The second they think they no longer have to dangle free things in front of developers in order to get their business, it will no longer be free.

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

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Post by MightyOwl13 » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:08 PM UTC

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.

On a side note I do use their free tier stuff (the amd vps-es) to host my website and it's been fine. Used the ampere instance to transfer stuff between two rclone encrypted remotes and haven't had issues so far.

Be careful though, the ampere instances aren't treated as "always free" so after the trial period ends, they get suspended and you either have to contact them or delete the instances and set them up from scratch... Had to spend a few hours setting up a book stack app instance again.

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

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Post by phs318u » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:10 PM UTC

There is no reasonable question for which “Oracle” is a good answer. The brand “Oracle” has rapidly evolved into a signal of “badness” in the same way as white mould on fruit, or chromatic slime on meat. Stay away!

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

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Post by hermitdev » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #28

CoastalCoder wrote: post #23

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That's not a great comparison. Lawnmower salesmen don't actively try to persuade you to stick your hand into the moving blades.

Ellison isn't the salesman, he's the lawnmower.

And don't assume you're the operator of said lawnmower. You are, in fact, the grass.

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

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Post by john2010 » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #113

rozap wrote: post #47

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Oh my god. Oracle having my address and credit card number is a nightmare scenario.

I wonder what happens if you sign up with a fake name, semi-disposable email address and a prepaid visa gift card that has $3.50 remaining balance on it.

accounts get cancelled after a few weeks!

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

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Post by YetAnotherNick » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:15 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #97

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #73

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What is shape? Reading the doc doesn't make it clear why it is a paid thing. I just signed up for oracle cloud for free account and how to check if I accidentally bought anything?

Shape just means instance sizing. I was presented two options: 1: 1vCPU 2GiB ram 2: 2vCPU 8GiB ram (Or something, my memory is awful and it was a long time ago now. I remember a friend of mine who works at oracle was walking me through.)

Oh. So can't you delete the VM after being charged once?

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

laurent92 wrote: post #110

kaba0 wrote: post #77

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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.

Sorry, Java is outdated, young people aren’t even interested in learning Java anymore. It’s the “old language”. Try React. Angular. Anything NPM is sexy. Leave Java for the generation Y.

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

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Post by hereforphone » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 9:21 PM UTC

laurent92 wrote: post #110

kaba0 wrote: post #77

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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.

Sorry, Java is outdated, young people aren’t even interested in learning Java anymore. It’s the “old language”. Try React. Angular. Anything NPM is sexy. Leave Java for the generation Y.

Java is disgusting. So is all the stuff you just mentioned.