Hello, thanks for your great videos, it help me a lot! Just to notice, I have 4 people I know with amp instances on free tier and from all of us after 60 days the instances were deleted by oracle... on Frankfurt and France regions. The way we solved was by upgrading to a "pay as you go account" and it continues free (if you maintain the free tier disk size 200gb and the same performance or aspects you had before) but more secure in terms of not deleting the instances. Love oracle and it's great to have this opportunity and also your channel! I saw all videos out there and yours crushed! thanks!
@@hugoribeiro874 the block volume was still there however I started all again... that's why I send the wordpress backups over the aws cli command to an s3 bucket... that's more safe for me...
Hey I am having trouble have signing up with Oracle cloud every time I try an payment method ,, the payment got successfully but as soon as I click start my trials it's shows up your card got decline ... Pls help me the Oracle cloud support is not giving proper answers .... 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@the_fun_is_important are you applying to the plan "pay has you go"? I added my card, be sure that the card owner has the same name and that you have about 90 euro credit so that oracle can test if the card is legit. They don't take any money... is just for checking..
FYI for you guys, don’t use 22.04 just yet. Some apps are not currently compatible. While yes you can rebuild the VM, but you’ll risk loosing yours to the current availability scarce on oracle server
Thank you for all this information you provide. i built an oracle cloud free tier vps based on your videos. I would like you to please show how i can take snapshots so that every time Ubuntu crash i don't have to set the instance up from the beginning. Thank you again
Thank you so much for the nice video. A quick question (I hope, no one asked it before). Can I create two machines by diving the resource. For example 2 VM with 2 Cores + 12 GB ram. It is possible to do that or I have to use 4 core with a single machine? Thank you
hi boss, how can I rest the Oracle cloud instance image to the default clean setting, I did some wrong installations and now want the image to default settings ? pls help
Really a lot of learning from your channel. It's annoying that after the 30 days you are no longer allowed to test features like Functions and events. Do you have a way to setup open source Fn Project as an alternative to Oracle Function ?
I was a big fan of this solution, unfortunately after some months of uninterrupted operation, this week my both instances stopped responding and free tier tenancy seems to be inactive. In consequence I can not access any of my instances remotely, or via panel, fix them, create new, or fix/modify an account - anything. Support does not respond, and as I researched on oracle support community it is not a new occurrence - support does not respond, cancelling chats without giving any explanation. The only notification in your account is: "You don’t have permission to view these resources in this compartment. Try another compartment, or contact your administrator for help.". You can't even recreate an account. Any tips for this? How to restore the tenancy again?
Hi thank you for your great videos I have 2 questions please : 1- how much bandwith do we have with the free tier ? 2- is there any risk of our free tier being shut down or revoked ? I am afraid of data loss , i run wordpress websites. Thank you
Amazing tutorial and answers! One question that comes tom mind , can you increase the CPU and RAM after the image was created ? Or how do we delete the VPS and create a new one ( to practice and test over and over again )? Ty again you super rock !
Alex, Thanks for the video but do you know what happens when you "upgrade" the free plan to paid plan but only use the free services? Do they still charge you for the free services? I ask this because I have noticed that in the past they were terminating some accounts without giving any notice or warning so I thought it is better to upgrade the service but only use the free service. This way they may think twice before terminating the service. Thanks if you or other users can answer this.
Hello sir I have tried more than 8c credit a and debit card but all got declined The payment is successful but when I click start trials it say your card got decline .... Pls help me i want it so badly. Pls help me 😭😭😭😭😭😭.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I think that you do not use a physical card. I have also virtual card and it charges me 1$ but after it says that your card is a debit/virtual card. So as I understand you do not try with a physical card
@@graphboss i have tried all physical Card ... And all were credit card not a Debit card.. sooo it is not working for me .. i have lost the hope of getting free tier.. if you have any solution please let me know.. it will help me..
@@the_fun_is_important there is live chat in the website. You can talk to them. Unfortunately I cannot say anything more. In my case, it accepts only physical cards. I don' know their requirements regarding these cards.
After creating instance we are unable to connect via SSH. I tried many ways but no use. Tried using cloud shell but asking for user id and password. Since we are using SSH key we dont know the password.
hello sir this massege showing in my account You don’t have permission to view these resources in this compartment. Try another compartment, or contact your administrator for help. After emailing support he told me I believe, We already had a conversation on this issue. I am checking with our concerned team on the termination reason and shall get back to you over an email. Unfortunately, you cannot use this account anymore since its terminated in the system. Is there any help from you or what is the reason and is there a solution or will the account work again in the future? This message suddenly appeared in the account Thank you very much for your constant support and great content thank you .
Error processing transaction We're unable to complete your sign up. Common sign up errors are due to: (a) Using prepaid cards. Oracle only accepts credit card and debit cards (b) Intentionally or unintentionally masking one's location or identity (c) Entering incomplete or inaccurate account details. Please try. again if this applies to you. Otherwise, contact Oracle Customer Service. Can anyone help here
@@IdeaSpot For sure I will try it. I have installed nextcloud at ubuntu server ampere cpu and 200 gb disk. It works very much faster than my home cloud based to odorid xu4 and debian. I am thinking to keep the oracle nextcloud server for instant photos upload from my phone. I am very graceful for your post to let us know this free oracle server. If it wasn't you maybe I would knew it after one year. Thank you very much. It is very easy the all procedure that it deserves to upgrade my account to payment. It would be very nice if you make a video about the cheapest setup we could buy. Its worth.Thank you again ... Pol from Greece.
Hi Alex thanks for all videos, I have instance with aapanel, do you have tutorial for resize storage without recreate instance because I already have some website running right now thank you,..
Man please new video tutorial. Two or three oracle instance + aapanel + Kubernetes or haproxy + Wordpress))) This will be the most viewed video on TH-cam. Failure resistance large project, this is important for many.
I installed aapanel as an experiment. For VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro, It is very hard for this instance. After installation shows almost 400 megabytes of RAM usage. No site. The panel interface was slow. Believe it or not, I installed a wordpress site on VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro without any panel. Installed all components one by one: activated firewall and permissions, Nginx, MySQL, PHP: php-fpm, Certbot for free SSL, phpmyadmin, curl and zip, Wordpress, pure-ftpd for FTP access. It's long! Difficult! But very interesting! I look at the load on the site in MobaXterm (I use it instead of putty)
I was wondering if is possible to have more than one username for shell access to the Oracle free tier server I have tried but it only seems to allow secure shell access for the default ubuntu username. My workaround so far is that I have made a user in the sudoers that doesn't need a pass for sudo but, I have to su into the user after login as ubuntu.
Yes you can add as many user in the system as you wish. Oracle forces you to use SSH key so if you add a new user you should generate a ssh key for it. (Or just turn off the SSH key check and use password for all user)
My free oracle cloud service has been terminated. They dont't explained the reason. I think it is because of inactivity. How can I restart the service?
I wouldn't say compromised but it is being abused by some people. Amazon have got SES service - Simple Email Service and people are abusing it so Amazon is getting tougher on people with more than 5% of bounce or spam reports.
Getting a transaction error when signing up. I tried different cards, emails, info but still the same. I've read the same issue for a lot of people at Reddit. Looks like Oracle is not allowing people to sign up! I hope they can fix this soon
@@IdeaSpot When I terminated an instance, it still lingers like a zombie. Does it ever fully go away? It also looks like the boot drive is still there too even though it's been disabled with no way to delete the image as the Delete option under More Options has been disabled (grayed out). Oracle Cloud's UI is pretty awful and not as straight forward as something like Digital Ocean or Vultr.
Hi Dear, Thank you for all of your efforts. When I created my first instance with VM Standard A1.Flex it was configued with default 46.6GB Boot Volume. But now I can check that Oracle provides 200GB of total storage with free tier. Can I now increse the size of boot volume? If yes, how?
@@vnr-world Not enough by doing so. You will have to re-partition the boot volume afterwards. Otherwise your boot volume will not able to use the increased storage. Re-partition operation is a bit of complex.
If you carefully read, they wrote "First 3000 OCPU hours", afterwards it will not be free. Afterwards it will be chargeable for OCPU @$0.01/hour per ARM based OCPU, lets say user is using 4 OCPUs, $0.01x4 OCPUx24 hoursX30 Days=$28.8 per month only for OCPU, as 18000 memory hours are always free.
@@IdeaSpot no need to do maths i called Oracle Cloud Support and they have cleared that "Memory hours are free every month upto 18000 memory hours but not OCPU hours (ARM based). They are just giving one time first 3000 OCPU ARM hours afterwards its chargeable @0.01/per hour per OCPU. User must have to upgrade after consumption of ARM OCPU 3000 OCPU hours. Otherwise they will suspend the instance without any prior notice.
What is an abandoned VMs? I don't log into my service every week so is it considered abandoned? They did terminate my account once but they didn't warn me nor notify me. One day my website(s) just disappeared. Also, you can't create a new account using the same email or credit card so that's end of my account on oracle. I have two credit cards but now both cards are declined by oracle and all I get from customer service is "Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide.". How do they get new customers if they can't resolve this simple task? I am prepared to pay them if they allow me to use the service. I am now thinking of joining Contabo for about 6.00 pounds per month. They give you 400GB disk space but only one cpu but for me it's enough.
I did create account Oracle Free Tier. But they did not send login credentials. I did contacted with them 15 times and also send message with their support. But no reply. This is very bad support and bad company. I did send all details with them. But still tell me to wait. Now 1 month passed but account not confirm. I really hate their support. Their support member not good. Google cloud are best. My suggestion to leave to create account of Oracle Free Tier.
Hello, thanks for your great videos, it help me a lot! Just to notice, I have 4 people I know with amp instances on free tier and from all of us after 60 days the instances were deleted by oracle... on Frankfurt and France regions. The way we solved was by upgrading to a "pay as you go account" and it continues free (if you maintain the free tier disk size 200gb and the same performance or aspects you had before) but more secure in terms of not deleting the instances. Love oracle and it's great to have this opportunity and also your channel! I saw all videos out there and yours crushed! thanks!
Good tip, thanks!
Were the backups also deleted?
@@hugoribeiro874 the block volume was still there however I started all again... that's why I send the wordpress backups over the aws cli command to an s3 bucket... that's more safe for me...
Hey I am having trouble have signing up with Oracle cloud every time I try an payment method ,, the payment got successfully but as soon as I click start my trials it's shows up your card got decline ... Pls help me the Oracle cloud support is not giving proper answers .... 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@the_fun_is_important are you applying to the plan "pay has you go"? I added my card, be sure that the card owner has the same name and that you have about 90 euro credit so that oracle can test if the card is legit. They don't take any money... is just for checking..
FYI for you guys, don’t use 22.04 just yet. Some apps are not currently compatible. While yes you can rebuild the VM, but you’ll risk loosing yours to the current availability scarce on oracle server
Thanks for the video Alex! They are valuable, and I can definitely say that every episode is a pleasant learning experience on my part.
Hi
Can you please make the last series of this video eg with Portainer + Nginx Proxy Manager + Wordpress?
Thank You
Is there any option to reset the account to factory defaults? I messed around - plan B: create a new account
Great thanks for the video.
Hestia already supports 22.04
Yesterday I updated and saw that
great, glad its updated - a few people were having version problems 👍
so with all the hosting in your tutorials. which one do you mostly use? the one you prefer
mostly vultr, check my blog for trials and discount links 👍
Thanks for your video, it would also be great if you made a video on how to backup an instance and restore it.
Thank you for all this information you provide. i built an oracle cloud free tier vps based on your videos. I would like you to please show how i can take snapshots so that every time Ubuntu crash i don't have to set the instance up from the beginning. Thank you again
Thank you so much for the nice video. A quick question (I hope, no one asked it before). Can I create two machines by diving the resource. For example 2 VM with 2 Cores + 12 GB ram. It is possible to do that or I have to use 4 core with a single machine? Thank you
yes, you can
hi boss, how can I rest the Oracle cloud instance image to the default clean setting, I did some wrong installations and now want the image to default settings ? pls help
My tenancy in Oracle became inactive.
And Authorization failure or requested resources no found error.
How to fix it.
Great info thanks
Really a lot of learning from your channel. It's annoying that after the 30 days you are no longer allowed to test features like Functions and events. Do you have a way to setup open source Fn Project as an alternative to Oracle Function ?
Hey just created my instance and suddently showed that I already spent 50$ of the 300$ free credits, how can I see where did I spend them?
I was a big fan of this solution, unfortunately after some months of uninterrupted operation, this week my both instances stopped responding and free tier tenancy seems to be inactive. In consequence I can not access any of my instances remotely, or via panel, fix them, create new, or fix/modify an account - anything. Support does not respond, and as I researched on oracle support community it is not a new occurrence - support does not respond, cancelling chats without giving any explanation. The only notification in your account is: "You don’t have permission to view these resources in this compartment. Try another compartment, or contact your administrator for help.".
You can't even recreate an account. Any tips for this? How to restore the tenancy again?
Hi thank you for your great videos
I have 2 questions please :
1- how much bandwith do we have with the free tier ?
2- is there any risk of our free tier being shut down or revoked ? I am afraid of data loss , i run wordpress websites.
Thank you
1. arm - Network bandwidth (Gbps): 4
VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro - Network bandwidth (Gbps): 0.48
2. I am afraid too. Make backups every day.
@@Caballero0873 we get 4 gb per month ?
@@seekersabdou6758 Network bandwidth (Gbps): 4 - site access speed.
Ten terabytes per month - traffic
@@Caballero0873 For ARM, it's up to the number of cores: 1 core = 1 Gbps; 2 cores = 2 Gbps; 3 cores = 3 Gbps; 4 cores = 4 Gbps;
I posted a comment here on channel about terminating instances without warning
Hi, i have registered for oracle cloud, tried to create an instance but could not proceed at the step where I select the OS. Can you guide me here.
Amazing tutorial and answers!
One question that comes tom mind , can you increase the CPU and RAM after the image was created ?
Or how do we delete the VPS and create a new one ( to practice and test over and over again )?
Ty again
you super rock !
yes u can!
Great - clear info, thanks
Alex,
Thanks for the video but do you know what happens when you "upgrade" the free plan to paid plan but only use the free services? Do they still charge you for the free services?
I ask this because I have noticed that in the past they were terminating some accounts without giving any notice or warning so I thought it is better to upgrade the service but only use the free service. This way they may think twice before terminating the service.
Thanks if you or other users can answer this.
The free tier things will still be free 👍
Hello sir I have tried more than 8c credit a and debit card but all got declined
The payment is successful but when I click start trials it say your card got decline .... Pls help me i want it so badly. Pls help me 😭😭😭😭😭😭.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Did you managed to fix it?
@@nukeman4 still no..
I think that you do not use a physical card. I have also virtual card and it charges me 1$ but after it says that your card is a debit/virtual card. So as I understand you do not try with a physical card
@@graphboss i have tried all physical Card ... And all were credit card not a Debit card.. sooo it is not working for me .. i have lost the hope of getting free tier.. if you have any solution please let me know.. it will help me..
@@the_fun_is_important there is live chat in the website. You can talk to them. Unfortunately I cannot say anything more. In my case, it accepts only physical cards. I don' know their requirements regarding these cards.
After creating instance we are unable to connect via SSH. I tried many ways but no use. Tried using cloud shell but asking for user id and password. Since we are using SSH key we dont know the password.
i am not able to see availability domain 1-2-3 option in oracle. it is default to 1 or 2 or 3
Hi
I have a question please.
At Oracle Free Tier can I create two different accounts with the same credit card but with 2 different emails?
Thank you
I don't think this will work
Thanks for the Vid bro, helped me greatly
No problem 👍
Thank you for your tutorial
i want to know how to install ioncube loader in ubuntu free tier Please Help Me
i have Hestia and ubuntu 20.4
Can I change the location?
hello sir this massege showing in my account
You don’t have permission to view these resources in this compartment. Try another compartment, or contact your administrator for help.
After emailing support he told me
I believe, We already had a conversation on this issue. I am checking with our concerned team on the termination reason and shall get back to you over an email. Unfortunately, you cannot use this account anymore since its terminated in the system.
Is there any help from you or what is the reason and is there a solution or will the account work again in the future?
This message suddenly appeared in the account
Thank you very much for your constant support and great content
thank you .
what about "The following service limits were exceeded" ?
Brother. If I delete boot volume, and create new one. Then old ssh works or not ?
You need to paste again but the IP will change so you'll be better of starting everything again.
Hi I have a question when I get 400$ can I use for 1 month right. They will not charge for that are they will charge for that?
Today only I create oracle cloud account in my account I have 400$ credit. I can play with that right. Incase I they will charge?
Error processing transaction
We're unable to complete your sign up.
Common sign up errors are due to: (a)
Using prepaid cards. Oracle only accepts
credit card and debit cards (b) Intentionally
or unintentionally masking one's location
or identity (c) Entering incomplete or
inaccurate account details. Please try.
again if this applies to you. Otherwise,
contact Oracle Customer Service.
Can anyone help here
Did you managed to fix this?
Can we create more than one account with the same credit card? Of course will be deferent email.
I don't think it will work, but let me know how it goes 😄
@@IdeaSpot For sure I will try it. I have installed nextcloud at ubuntu server ampere cpu and 200 gb disk. It works very much faster than my home cloud based to odorid xu4 and debian. I am thinking to keep the oracle nextcloud server for instant photos upload from my phone. I am very graceful for your post to let us know this free oracle server. If it wasn't you maybe I would knew it after one year. Thank you very much. It is very easy the all procedure that it deserves to upgrade my account to payment. It would be very nice if you make a video about the cheapest setup we could buy. Its worth.Thank you again ...
Pol from Greece.
Is it free tier for life time?
Hi Alex thanks for all videos, I have instance with aapanel, do you have tutorial for resize storage without recreate instance because I already have some website running right now thank you,..
Coming soon 👍
@@IdeaSpot Thank you so much
Great tips Alex! can you make a video on how to deploy Redis object cache on ORACLE Server?
the cloudpanel video I made does this 👍
Man please new video tutorial. Two or three oracle instance + aapanel + Kubernetes or haproxy + Wordpress))) This will be the most viewed video on TH-cam. Failure resistance large project, this is important for many.
I installed aapanel as an experiment. For VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro, It is very hard for this instance. After installation shows almost 400 megabytes of RAM usage. No site. The panel interface was slow.
Believe it or not, I installed a wordpress site on VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro without any panel. Installed all components one by one: activated firewall and permissions, Nginx, MySQL, PHP: php-fpm, Certbot for free SSL, phpmyadmin, curl and zip, Wordpress, pure-ftpd for FTP access. It's long! Difficult! But very interesting! I look at the load on the site in MobaXterm (I use it instead of putty)
Good 👍🏻
how do i change the OS as at start I used Ubuntu and now I need to reinstall with different OS.
You can't change OS. You will have to terminate instance and start over.
Can I have multiple oracle accounts, with different cards but the same address and number
I don't think it will work, but let me know how it goes 😄
I was wondering if is possible to have more than one username for shell access to the Oracle free tier server I have tried but it only seems to allow secure shell access for the default ubuntu username. My workaround so far is that I have made a user in the sudoers that doesn't need a pass for sudo but, I have to su into the user after login as ubuntu.
Yes you can add as many user in the system as you wish. Oracle forces you to use SSH key so if you add a new user you should generate a ssh key for it. (Or just turn off the SSH key check and use password for all user)
My free oracle cloud service has been terminated. They dont't explained the reason. I think it is because of inactivity. How can I restart the service?
I have the same problem please help
For how long did you guys use their services?
I had a question, will oracle ban me for downloading a torrent on the server?
I only done this once and I'm afraid they would ban me
probably not, but let me know how it goes
@IdeaSpot - nothing against you, great tutorials. But Oracle is compromised.
I wouldn't say compromised but it is being abused by some people. Amazon have got SES service - Simple Email Service and people are abusing it so Amazon is getting tougher on people with more than 5% of bounce or spam reports.
Getting a transaction error when signing up. I tried different cards, emails, info but still the same. I've read the same issue for a lot of people at Reddit. Looks like Oracle is not allowing people to sign up! I hope they can fix this soon
Did you managed to fix it?
how do i delete all the instances and start afresh clean without having to create a new account?
under 'instances' you can terminate them
@@IdeaSpot When I terminated an instance, it still lingers like a zombie. Does it ever fully go away? It also looks like the boot drive is still there too even though it's been disabled with no way to delete the image as the Delete option under More Options has been disabled (grayed out). Oracle Cloud's UI is pretty awful and not as straight forward as something like Digital Ocean or Vultr.
@@djmtype It eventually does go away.
anyones instance get deleted after the 30days???
Hi Dear, Thank you for all of your efforts. When I created my first instance with VM Standard A1.Flex it was configued with default 46.6GB Boot Volume. But now I can check that Oracle provides 200GB of total storage with free tier. Can I now increse the size of boot volume? If yes, how?
Bump! I want to know too.
@@vnr-world Thank you for your reply. How much increasing will be safe for Always Free?
@@vnr-world Not enough by doing so. You will have to re-partition the boot volume afterwards. Otherwise your boot volume will not able to use the increased storage. Re-partition operation is a bit of complex.
@@gcpanda2912 Nope you just have to restart it. well that's my experience with ubuntu instance I don't know about the other
If you carefully read, they wrote "First 3000 OCPU hours", afterwards it will not be free. Afterwards it will be chargeable for OCPU @$0.01/hour per ARM based OCPU, lets say user is using 4 OCPUs, $0.01x4 OCPUx24 hoursX30 Days=$28.8 per month only for OCPU, as 18000 memory hours are always free.
no - its 3000 hrs per month free, do the math😅 its always free
@@IdeaSpot no need to do maths i called Oracle Cloud Support and they have cleared that "Memory hours are free every month upto 18000 memory hours but not OCPU hours (ARM based). They are just giving one time first 3000 OCPU ARM hours afterwards its chargeable @0.01/per hour per OCPU. User must have to upgrade after consumption of ARM OCPU 3000 OCPU hours. Otherwise they will suspend the instance without any prior notice.
that simply isn't true, my arm instance has been running for many months without charge. ARM A1 is always free: snipboard.io/xBf432.jpg
Ampere A1 is an outdated tech, they are not adding anything, they are just disabling abandoned VMs.
What is an abandoned VMs? I don't log into my service every week so is it considered abandoned? They did terminate my account once but they didn't warn me nor notify me. One day my website(s) just disappeared. Also, you can't create a new account using the same email or credit card so that's end of my account on oracle. I have two credit cards but now both cards are declined by oracle and all I get from customer service is "Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide.".
How do they get new customers if they can't resolve this simple task? I am prepared to pay them if they allow me to use the service. I am now thinking of joining Contabo for about 6.00 pounds per month. They give you 400GB disk space but only one cpu but for me it's enough.
My free tier just ended
Please help me
I did create account Oracle Free Tier. But they did not send login credentials. I did contacted with them 15 times and also send message with their support. But no reply. This is very bad support and bad company. I did send all details with them. But still tell me to wait. Now 1 month passed but account not confirm. I really hate their support. Their support member not good. Google cloud are best. My suggestion to leave to create account of Oracle Free Tier.