So my experience
I’ve been running oracle free services for a year or two and it’s been fine. I registered my credit card but have never had to pay anything.
The little instances with a single x86 core and 1gn ram sometimes bog down and need a hard reboot, especially if my disks at home have any interruption
The quad arm core instance does a lot better.
I looked at Oracle too, but they require unique personal data and credit card number for each free instance. How can you run more than one instance, if not using many people’s ID’s and credit cards? And just for 1 instance there is too much hastle…
You can host several machines with one user. Why would you need to register several accounts? Just create several instances.
This is false.
Every account is provided with certain amount of free resources. It’s up to you how to use them. You can allocate them all to one instance, or create four smaller instances, etc.
I’ll just leave this here… for new SNO’s
When evaluating the risk, as another poster pointed out, free tier users will be bumped of the cloud first, and will get limited response contacting 0racl3 support, the ticket will be closed - you might be one of the lucky ones, and get a notification email giving 10 days notice to upgrade to pay as you go… or the service might just be terminated instantly.
Your luck will vary, it is a great environment for Free ™ - the Arch64 machines are insanely quick, and capable of running around 10 Storj nodes each in docker, with 4 public IP addresses in different ranges, it’s a great way to get more Ingress for Storj nodes… The time to be doing this was definitely 18+ months ago, now it will give little benefit as most of the ranges in the free tier now have SNO nodes on, you might be lucky and be able to get an IPv4 in an empty range, you just have to keep allocating and deallocating IP to get one…
Taken from Veelgestelde vragen over Oracle Cloud Free Tier | Oracle Nederland
- Who is eligible for Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
One Oracle Cloud free trial or Always Free account is allowed per person.
NB:
- Creating multiple free accounts or attempting to do so is not allowed.
- All contact and billing information provided must be correct, valid, and used with permission for the duration of the account.
- Failure to meet these requirements may result in suspension or termination of your account.
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In addition, your idle instances will be getting reclaimed.
The simple solution for it is to convert your free account to pay-as-you-go account. You still get the same resources for free but you are now a real customer.
What are you talking about? Are you planning to run nodes on Oracle resources? This makes no sense.
Do you have a source for this or is this a speculation?