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Update 2022: We have a new video here ➡️ • Best Free VPS Setup 20... This method is a smoother setup with some extra inclusions like email, NGINX caching, and some security tweaks. Definitely check that one out too!
In this video we will be showing you how to set up a WordPress site on Oracle Cloud which is free forever! This is great for those who want to try out WordPress and see how it works and for those who just want a free site. The free tier also allows you to use free SSL certificate and a custom domain. We will be using the Oracle Cloud dashboard to set up our server and we will be using aapanel to manage our server and install WordPress.
Commands used are here: ideaspot.com.au/blog/oracle-f...
0:00 Introduction & Sign Up
1:09 Setup Free VPS
2:05 SSH key setup
3:37 Connect with SSH
3:51 Setup VPS and
4:15 Point DNS for Domain
5:22 Install Aapanel
8:06 Add website, install WordPress
11:36 AApanel custom panel domain and SSL
14:35 Add firewall
15:11 Testing and conclusions
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I watched the video because Oracle and free in the same sentence is like seeing a Unicorn
😅
Me too
Two Unicorns
As far as a credit card is required, is not free for me
Zdravko Dimov That's a lame horse
made my personal semi-static webpage in flask. been looking for a free way to host it until i can afford OVH again. this works great
Incredibly, in a few hours the server was set up, the domain was registered and the page was set up.
Great tutorial
Wow nice work 🙌
Great video. I just followed along and had no problems. Had signed up for the Oracle free tier some time ago, your video inspired me to revisit it. Thank you!
Nice work 👍 thanks for watching!
I was looking for something like this to start deploying my personal projects, thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil!
Hi Alex. I greatly appreciated this tutorial. If I could have done more likes I would. I'm in the process of reestablishing my wife's art website after having to shut it down. This is a great birthday gift for her. Would be taking advantage of this free tier service from Oracle. Thanks for this.
wow that's great! nice work & happy birthday 😉
When they shut down your server in like 1 month, asking to contact support (which you have to pay for), just delete the machine instance without deleting the storage then recreate another instance attaching the old instance.
Done it shouldn't happen anymore 😉
Was thinking about experimenting with a VPS and boom boom pow... TH-cam reads my mind! Thanks. It's up and running and working sweet.
I feel like my brain is leveling up to a new level of WP understanding! Thank you for a great tutorial.
Happy to help!
Alex this is really amazing thanks for the thorough review
Glad you liked it! was an interesting one for me to make
Incredible video. Learned soo much! Thanks, man!
Glad it was helpful!
José
Brasil
just came across your channel thanks for showing me this! Been wanting to start my own company and was looking into VPS
Great Tutorial, you have new sub here for life, and coffee will be sent on soon!!!! Very clear and concise explanations on the few vids/tuts i have watched so far.... Thank again!! 👍👍
Great job mate! This is actual a wonderful money saving tip for busy webdevelopper
wish i had it when I was younger!
Really useful content. I tried with WSL instead Putty, works well.
Good tip!
Brilliant overview, thanks!
Really thank you so much Alex for this video
Great tutorial! Thank you. I am suprised to see that AApanel works with this oracle image. I've been using aapanel 7.x Chinese version with CentOS 7(same Apache, SQL, php) for several years, quite stable, but not sure this aapanel 6.x with oracle, hopefully also stable. From aapanel, the compatibility differs, Centos7.x > Debian10 > Ubuntu 20.04 > Cenots8.x > Ubuntu 18.04 > other OS.
What would you use after centos become upper stream?
Pls I want to ask if oracel will not shut it down later and ask you to pay for it later.
I got it! Many thanks for this nice tip!
thanks for the amazing explanation. Great Video!!!
When I registered, the free tier was still at 100GB block storage and 2 VMs with 2GB of RAM each. I will definitely try out the ARM server soon!
For sure 👍
Thank you, bless youtube algorithm (and you) for showing this precious info
Thanks for watching 🙏
Love it, I'll "cloud" my website pretty soon. Thanks
This is gold, man!! Thank you!!
Thanks for watching 👍
Only 4CPUs and 24GB are free for more than 30 days
Thanks for the news. I like to most the part of not being suddenly put under the paid program. I hope to develop some sort of ML app with it
Thanks Konutech
You get that + 2x 1GB/1C micro instances as part of the always free program, and it's definitely free for more than 30 days, but there is a catch after your free trial, see my other comment for that(it's still free, you just need to recreate your VM)
I honestly don't even know if you mentioned this in the video, I haven't watched it past the 2 minute mark, but it's extremely important.
After your trial period expires, your VM WILL BE DISABLED! You can save the data on it after it's disabled, but it WILL BE DISABLED! After it gets disabled you need to recreate it using the image file you saved and only then will it remain as is indefinitely
After 30 days I've lost my instance 4gbCPU and 24 gb RAM ..disabled... unreachable... fuck.. I've lost all that settings and files .. 😭😭😭😭
@@vsbofficial3098 Hey I got this error "Error processing transaction" any idea how to soilve this ?
Awesome! Nice Tutorial
Thank you so much, that was so helpful. 👍
Reminder to do backups, especially on always free instances.
good tip!
Is it possible to do automated daily back ups on always free instance ? If yes, how to enable it ?
Pretty cool, thanks Alex. I'm still going to use paid hosting but for anyone wanting to use a free option, what more could you ask for?
Me too, but it’s still nice to have for experimenting and trying out different stuff, personal projects etc
After 30 days I've lost my instance 4gbCPU and 24 gb RAM .. fuck.. I've lost all that settings and files .. 😭😭😭😭
@@vsbofficial3098 What happened ??? so is it not free or lifetime???
@@vsbofficial3098 ain't it a "free always" tier?
@@vsbofficial3098 ur tenacy should be downgraded to a alwys-free account, create a new vm with the same specs and boost disk.
Thank you so much! Very helpful tutorial.
Awesome video tutorial and great work. Really enjoyed it and learned a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Great helpful video. Certainly, I will try. Thank you, mate!
How to setup subdomain and addon domain?
IMPORTANT: choose the right region from the start because you cannot change afterwards. The "ALWAYS FREE" shapes are only available in a few regions.
good tip - im guessing the north America ones probably have the most capacity
My preference would be Switzerland ngl
@@announcer7400 Yeah i get pretty good latency on Switzerland server
So that’s why I can’t do anything I chose sweden (I’m in Finland so it’s the closest) I guess they have no free servers there.
I tried but no success
Nice and clear sir! Thank you
TIL about the Ampere cores on the Oracle free tier. I didn’t know this was available. Now I need to go and play :-) Thanks for the video.
You can use more than 47GB disk space you get by default ... In your video you forgot to mention that. When create instance check that "Specify a custom boot volume size" checkbox and there you can change default 47GB to up to 200GB for free. Or add later 150GB storage block volume (to already existing 47GB boot volume) and attach it. Expanding boot volume to 200GB may be a bit tricky actually, as you need to install and run oci-utils ... Attaching as separate storage volume is a bit easier, but still have it's tricks. So you may show that in this or separate video, as it will help, if people need more space that default 47GB (actually I think about 25GB free, others taken by OS and etc).
There is also Always free older AMD EPYC option at last section, after Ampere - "Specialty and previous generation" - VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro, but it is just 1 core and 1GB RAM (still up to 200GB disk). Can run two of them for free. But they are way slower than Ampere and way less RAM obviously. I've tested and did many benchmarks for both, even comparing 1 vs one core and etc ... AMD core is very limited and more than twice weaker cap set there than 1 Ampere core. So with 4 Ampere cores you get about 10 times more performance. Yet, if you need AMD core - that is option, as Ampere is ARM and you are limited to Oracle Linux, no CentOs and others. Also as ARM you have other hardware/software limitations and if need x86 - you can run two AMD "Specialty and previous generation" machines (1c / 1GB each) forever free. And split that total 200GB disk space as you want.
Ampere does have CentOs, and I am doing Ubuntu on it right now
I checked to Specify a custom boot volume size and changed the volume to 200Gb but still, it's showing the default volume in my aapanel.
@@SumonJena yes, it was tricky to make it work. I did use some online guide, but can't remember
@@geost77 How many instances can you create after trial end ?
@@touffiksteven max 4. As free you have 4 Ampere cores and 200GB disk space. So that is the limiting factor. As you can't have less than a core, you can have 4 instances with 1 core and 50GB (min disk space is 50GB) each. Or have other combinations of cores and disk space, but 4 is max.
Perfect timing, I was evaluating different free services and was ready to settle with Heroku but this is SO much better!
I only want to experiment but I'm curious, what happens if you exceed the free tier maximum values, do you just get charged or is the service interrupted like with IBM?
Yep, wondering if these generous free tier is a kind of bait to catch extra billing hehe
When 30-day period or the $300 credits ends, your services get interrupted, but the elegible free tier services remain forever. You are not able to exceed the maximum always free tier values, unless you "upgrade" to a paid account.
@@fmelodb Nice.
I don't think you can really exceed the free tier maximums unless you're a serious enterprise or are running some illegal processes there. I have 35 small business websites on another VPS provider and have never exceeded 10TB bandwidth per month.
@@HullioGQ That's good to know, thanks.
Brilliant video! Thank you
thanks bro for sharing this, I'm looking forward to another cool video from you🙂
Hi, great video, thanks a lot for showing all that.
Unfortunately, during the registration process we are asked to add a payment method and the prepaid cards are not accepted.
Did you get to input your credit or debit card in the registration process ?
same
Credit or debit card will work but not prepaid usually
I have registered with my revolut card, they charge 1 USD to confirm identity
Same issue here. But I used a Discover Credit card and never could get it to work, tried 3 times. Eventually had to use a Visa debit and it worked.
i used a wells fargo card and they didnt even accept it :(
Hey, I really appreciate this content so much!
It's really awesome.
Anyway, can we run NodeJs server on this vps? I mean by using the aapanel.
And could you probably help us to make a tutorial for using the AWS free tier as well especially for setting up a Node.js based server? (maybe like Next.js SSR website or Nest.js - Typescript Backend Framework)
Because its just so confusing for me!
Thank you so much man!!
You can run anything as long as it supports ARM architecture (aarch64)
Thank you so much for a great tutorial 🍻😊👍 !
Thanks for watching 👍
You can also use Ubuntu os rather than Oracle Linux.
Can I use kali Linux and is it will be free forever or a year
Thanks for this video. I have one doubt - I set up the same config as you did on the video, but with a boot volume of 200GB (auto-adjusted to 192GB). But, my AAPanel is showing the size of the root directory (/) as 36GB and /var/oled size as 10GB. Isn't the boot volume size the total storage space I will get?
Wait for a few hours. It will auto adjust to the max accessable memory. Same happened to me yesterday.
@@ArjunSehgal92 Thanks for the info.
@@ArjunSehgal92 Almost 24hours has passed and I still did not see the update. Can you tell me how much time it takes for you? or Is there anything you do to update?
@@sundayamizo For me it happened in 1-2 hours only. I don't know why isn't it happening for you.
Oracle is so underated as always ♥
this is should be game changing , thanks for sharing 👍
I spend more time tinkering around with servers and panels than I do actually creating anything meaningful on the installs. 😆 I might have to turn off notifications for your videos for a while!
I know the feeling right... maybe just change career to backend dev?
@@IdeaSpot - Once it became an actual job I'd then go looking for something else to mess with. 😂
hey thanks so much for this video! i got an error message when i tried to select shape. "Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain pHdc:AP-SINGAPORE-1-AD-1. If you specified a fault domain, try creating the instance without specifying a fault domain. If that doesn’t work, please try again later. Learn more about host capacity." is this normal or do i have to wait it out? or just create one and later recreate again? or is it a one time thing? Sorry I'm so new and just wanted to check
Yes that's normal, I actually got that error back in my earlier "Free VPS" video - you can try reducing the RAM and see if it works? Otherwise, try the AMD micro option
@@IdeaSpot ah thanks so much! i'll give that a try
Me too. Try to register new account with other region
@@IdeaSpot in Singapore, really out of resources, even 1gb ram
me too facing same issue :/
This very interesting. Thank you so much for sharing this good stuff.
Redbull te dá asas?
Thank you so much man !! actually Im really grateful i clicked your videooo
Instead of 4 cores and 16GB of RAM, I am able to select 16 cores and 96GB. Free plan - Frankfurt Server!
😱😱😱😱
@@IdeaSpot Thank you for this awesome video! With 16CPU and 96GB RAM, a website is able to handle a decent amount of traffic, right?
Yeah easily
Work too lmao
When you signed up, you started the free trial. When the free trial credits expire in 30 days, you'll be limited to the Always-free eligible configuration unless you upgrade your account.
I don't recommend oracle cloud, you will loose all your data in case you store or do anything. I had a free account on it, and after the free trial expired, I dint upgrade it, They terminated/suspended my account. When I contact an agent, they say that system terminated my account and they cant do anything.
They didn't even provide any reason for termination. Note I didn't use the 200 gb storage to store any file/ abuse the compute. More over I have only used it to experiment on creating an instance, setting up network and other types of learning.
did you find any alternatives? same thing happened to me
got anything guys?
Nope. Nothing yet, i didn't find a good alternative.
@@22manohar08 :(
@@llvn11 Amazon Lighsail
Thanks Alex. Pretty cool, Bro ❤️
Thanks for watching 🙏
If domain name and SSL settings do not appear on aapanel, then turn on developer settings. Great tutorial, helped me a lot! Thanks man
!
Be careful with this free tier guys. It gets deleted without warning time to time (even if I used it every day!).
Would you do Rustdesk Remote Desktop Server on an Oracle Cloud?
Superb tutorial. Thank you 😊
thanks, glad to help!
Much love 💝🤘
thanks for the tutorial and especially for the aapanel reference. I've never heard about it before and it looks exactly like the tool I need
Thanks 👍🏻
Idea for next video: could you do a setup tutorial for a free web forum, using free Oracle server.
Amazing Alex 🕷
Thanks for watching!!
thanks for the tutorial.
There are no more capacity, because of your tutorial. Thx man -_-
You are awesome ❤️
thanks a lot, you're the best!
Thanks you, I really appreciate your video
Thanks one of the great tut
Going to try this out, 4 CPU, 24GB is extremely generous.
It is just marketing. Take attention to the overall service quality (UI, support, reliability) compared to other providers.
I am still trying to figure out what 4 processors means... is it i3 . i7 . i9 ... what gen?
And are they really giving 24 gb of ram for free?
This can actually host any medium size website maybe with 50+ K users.
Is there a catch?
Thanks for this, great video, Is there a bandwidth limit and did you test upload and/or download speeds? Thanks
You are best man. thank you very much
nice video, nice tutorial, respect, it helped me a lot, thank you
Thanks Alex.
Literally you showed that how to host our personal website for free all we need is a domain and we xan host our site you are awesome bro😁😁😁😁
thanks Rahul 👍
Also thanks for telling us this. I signed up and if the service works well I would not mind paying them for additional services considering I might need to scale eventually.
Hope you enjoy
I was stick with azure but it looks really good for a free tier, gonna give it a try.
Yes worth a shot!
Excelent tutorial thanks
Glad it was helpful!
great tutorial
Thank you for the info
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Hi! Thanks for the awesome tutorial. One question: I have installed docker and nginxproxymanager. I observe that the instance "sleeps" and my site is not accessible until I ssh back to the instance. Is that capacity related? Is there some setting I 've missed?
Nice Tutorial. . Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Good job
Nice tutorial thank you. just wondering which screen recording software are you using?
Obs
very useful video tutorial.
Excellent Tutorial. Could you do a tutorial on how to install an android system in oracle cloud virt-manager?
It'd awesome to have a tutorial about setting up nextcloud on this server :) Thanks a lot.
Yes for sure 🔥🔥
UR a Wizard Dude !
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
this is really cool, ty
happy to help!
Great video. Thanks
Marlboro?
this is awesome
Thanks 🙏
Nice video, TNX
Hello, can you tell us what are the best additions we install on this server so that the site works quickly and performs?
@IdeaSpot at 5:07 in your video you said that the "Provisioning can take a couple hours". I have had it take upwards of a few minutes to half an hour at the most. Just wanted to point that out to anyone else that is thinking of doing this. FYI. I also guess it depends on the region your from and the ping to the servers and so on can also take into account but since I'm from North America/Canada it didn't take that long at all.
Try moving to Australia 😞
@@IdeaSpot there's a Bug or something is wrong with apache it won't update it gets stuck in the "updating" cycle. I Noticed it today going to try the NGINX setup instead to see if it makes and difference.
u are the real MVP man
😅
Very helpful and professional video, also introduce so wonderful and Always Free tier VPS. Thanks a lot. May i ask one question about block storage? There is "Local disk: block storage only" in VPS Shape, how big size about this block storage? Thanks again.
200G
very helpful
great server was setup and website working. I want to use set reverse proxy for my other web site in the second free instance.
Thanks for this! Though I messed up the first time (I generated keys using Oracle's rather than putty's) so I deleted my first instance and started over because it was asking for a root password.
Great resource. Just looking for something like this. Just one question, how to use NodeJs on this server?
Thanks alot