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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 sz4kerto »

andai wrote: post #45
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #41

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.

Wait, are you saying Java performs worse if you give it more memory to work with?

No. More accurately: with very large heaps the default performance characteristics of the GC might be different than what you’d like it to be. For example you might get huge throughput but occasional long GC pauses.

But it’s all tunable.

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

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Post by michael1999 »

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…

We were a paying customer, and the same thing happened. I expect it was lack of competence more than dark patterns, although strategic incompetence is always possible with O. Oracle is not a credible cloud vendor.

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

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Post by chc4 »

marderfarker2 wrote: post #60
chc4 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I signed up specifically to try out the Ampere instances (and when chosing the home region it said x, y, z were at capacity so I chose w), but wasn't able to actually create an Ampere instance because of lack of availability. I ended up just using a free x86 instance for a different project, but it was pretty disappointing.

Do they provide free IPv4 for the x86 instances?

Yes

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

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Post by jaytaylor »

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've been using it for about 3 years without issue, but you're right - you do have to be careful to set it up properly. I've also never gotten any related (or unrelated) physical mail from them about my account.

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

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Post by bborud »

ransom1538 wrote: post #7
bborud wrote: post #6

With Oracle you always read the fine print. I wouldn't risk touching this with your ten foot pole.

It's hard to build yachts by giving away free machines.

There is more money in treating customers even just slightly better.

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Post by duxup »

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.

Until your nemesis says “Yeah upgrade my account for all that cool stuff!”

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

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Post by _red »

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 our sales dept)

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

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Post by thriftwy »

smarx007 wrote: post #39
SimianSci wrote: post #19

Enticing, but a part of me is still very hesitant to get in bed with Oracle. They've gained a reputation of trying to lock customers in so that their legal department can "innovate" more ways of squeezing money out of them. The common joke remains that Oracle is actually just two law-firms in a software-company trenchcoat. Until this reputation changes, any offer they present smells suspiciously like a baited hook.

Had IBM Cloud account for a while. At some point, they started to attach a notice to a monthly $0 bill along the lines: if you card gets declined, we will fine you $25 and if you don't pay in 7 days, we will fine you further $50. Easiest account termination decision I have ever had. I guess the first email from Oracle "we are making routine changes to the T&Cs and our privacy policy" will be the end of my account.

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.

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