▲ 12 r/oraclecloud
Found a way to see if your network is being throttled
Go to https://cloud.oracle.com/monitoring/explore, configure it like the second image, set it to last 90 days
The higher the line goes - the more of your packets get "throttled" - i.e. active speed limits.
Diagnostic reboot does not help. This is on the free tier, NOT PAYG.
u/iGermanProd — 3 months ago
▲ 14 r/oraclecloud
Response from Oracle support about free tier accounts with old (currently active) 4/24 instances
Was directed to an online chat by the Oracle email support and got this response. I'm not sure how true this is, people mentioned their support is outsourced, but it sounds nice. I still have not gotten any banners. I'll keep my instance active as is and we'll see what happens. I created it in 2023.
u/iGermanProd — 3 months ago
▲ 19 r/oraclecloud
How I backed up and booted locally my entire VPS
Thought it would be useful to share here, I documented how I backed up my free tier instance. Paranoia and all
u/iGermanProd — 3 months ago
▲ 11 r/oraclecloud
Old Free Tier (not PAYG, not Trial) with 4/24 instance -- what do I need to do to keep the instance alive?
I have a Free Tier account I made over 3 years ago with a 4/24 instance I made around the same time. All this time it has been working fine. It's not a trial account, it's not a PAYG account. I am well within the green zone on usage and it's not idle.
I just now discovered here on Reddit that they're slashing the Always Free resources in half. I checked my dashboard and I don't have any banners about that, but my limits page does have the new numbers, and funnily says that I'm in the negatives right now on them - like -12GB and -2 cores. Way to go, Oracle, to not notify anyone about it lol. It was buried in a big list of random metrics in the Governance section.
The instance is still active and works, though.
I don't want to do anything rash so I don't lose the instance, i.e. I should definitely not terminate it. So I'm very reluctant to resize it.
What's my course of action here? Keep it and pray it doesn't get term'd? Or is it safe to resize it without losing my allocated capacity? I have 0 Oracle support, as far as I'm concerned there are no human employees at that company, only a really cheap AI model, so the only other way is to ask Reddit.
u/iGermanProd — 3 months ago