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.
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 😉
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!
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.
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!! 👍👍
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
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
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)
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.
@@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.
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.
❗❗IMPORTANT❗❗ Update 2022: We have a new video here ➡ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hz58Zkke4VE.html This method is a smoother setup with some extra inclusions like email, NGINX caching, and some security tweaks. Definitely check that one out too! Also YES: This is really ALWAYS free (Since a lot of you have asked!) check here for details on how it works: www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ I've highlighted the important parts: snipboard.io/RqNXmn.jpg You get access to your 4cpu & 24GB service always free forever. You ALSO have a 30 day trial to test everything else on Oracle, e.g. you can test 16CPU and 96GB ram if you like, but it will only last 30 days. How can they do this? Oracle can do whatever it wants, it is 37th biggest company in the world, worth over $260 Billion. The CEO is top 10 richest person in the world. They simply want young developers and engineers to choose their more expensive systems when they grow up to become managers, and they do this by getting you hooked when you're young with this free tier stuff. Hope this makes it clear! Enjoy :)
Exactly! btw, did you find out any document about how to keep always-free resource alive. If I create always-free vps and don't use them, will they detect and delete it?
Ive been using mine very infrequently since February, there’s probably been 3-4 months without logging in and it’s been fine Because it’s a virtual resource, it doesn’t really cost anything if it’s sitting idle
Great video mate. I used to work for Oracle Consulting years ago but OCI came around many years after I left to join another company. Very informative along with some of your other videos. Keep up the good work!
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!!
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?
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.
GUYS this might help but for some reason it would deny my credit cards from my personal account even though I have like 800 + credit score and high credit. However, I tried using my business account credit card and it worked. Maybe its for businesses or they have some way of checking you're a business. So use a business credit card probably more likely to pass the last step.
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 ?
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?
@@ArjunSehgalDigital 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?
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
Tried to subscribe, but it doesn't pass over the credit card payment. A friend of mine tried it as well and it didn't go. Contacting the support is frustrating: Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide.
Just to add. It's extreemly dangerous to be downloading scripts, then running them as 'root' without any checks. (that's not to mention, you it was also a 'HTTP' link)
I just got my VPS deleted one week into the trial for no reason, no email, notification, or anything. It's definitely not for a production environment.
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.
Beware using this lol. I deployed a project on it and received an email in a few weeks that it was terminated and I’m unable to reactivate it. Have reached out to them many times asking why the service was terminated and nobody from Oracle has responded to me. It has been months since I first emailed them.
Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.E4.Flex in availability domain AD-1. Create the instance in a different availability domain or try again later. If you specified a fault domain, try creating the instance without specifying a fault domain, otherwise try creating the instance in a different availability domain. If that doesn’t work, please try again later.
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.
