How to keep Oracle from reclaiming my Free Tier Instances. Never Idle OCI Free Tier Instance. 

Glad it helped!

You’re welcome! Yes that would definitely do it, I also use supervisor to run my Minecraft server instead of screen as majority of people do.

@@TechTute interesting, I use screen but am hacking my way through this and by no means an expert. Will look into that as an alternative.

I like supervisor better, as it monitors your process and makes sure it is always running, it can auto restart it for you in case of crash, start it on boot, etc. I have a video on building minecraft bedrock edition with supervisorctl if you wanna see what the config looks like. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aH93NV_ImQY.html it should be very similar if you are runninga java just swap the command that starts your server.

You’re not required to have a business email, I’m using free outlook account. The main thing people struggle with is credit card. You need to have a valid credit card, many people try to use unsupported debit cards and prepaid cards and the are unable to set up new acct.

thanks!

yeah they keep changing, can't keep up

Thanks for the sub!

Let me know if you have any specific questions, will be glad to help understand it better.

I can’t agree more. This set up is absolute waste of resources. I don’t recommend it. As I mentioned in the video there are other ways to get around the %15 utilization requirement. Switch to pay as you go, get smaller shape instance, actually use the instance for something meaningful, etc.

It’s a great tool, and it comes really handy if you need to monitor and control processes on Linux system.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much for catching that typo! I've fixed the typo you mentioned, and the correct commands are now in place. Thanks again!

Thank you too!

You're welcome!

you can do that, instead of using supervisorctl you can just use cron job that runs on a schedule.

I believe you should be ok if you start it now, but you never know with the free tier account . If I were you I would definitively take a nice backup just to be safe.

@@TechTutethanks! I dediced to be really safe and so to to updte to paid account: it is requesting 93$ payment on credit card. Is that correct? is it going to be refounded?

@pietromoropietro___moro1345 yes this is normal, it is just payment verification hold it is not an actual charge, and it will be refunded right away at least based on my experience. I have heard others saying it depending on your bank maybe a day or two until it’s removed from your account. Any way I would still recommend making a backup of your VM just in case, it does take a few days for free acct to convert to PAYG, and if something got triggered in OCI already you probably don’t wanna take chances. Plus there is volume backup included with the “always free“ tier so shouldn’t cost you anything. One more thing I’d recommend once you’re switched to PAYG is to setup budget alerts. I have a quick video on how to do it if you are interested check it out. Oracle Cloud Budget Alerts Setup Tutorial: Prevent Overspending ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u9p8ScJWv1M.html

I’d say on average a couple of days.

@@TechTute I guess I was lucky, to get in few hours. Also requirements now are 20%. You could pin a comment about this change.

That’s crazy, never heard of such a quick conversion. Thanks for the update!

You can give it a try and see if it helps, I haven't had such an issue, but to be honest I don't use the free tier account that much. It kind of make sense to experience higher steal time on the free tier especially during peak usage periods. Let's not forget that the free tier accounts are there to offer a no-cost introduction to cloud services, and limited performance, including high steal time, may occur due to limited resources, shared infrastructure, and high demand. My advice if you want better performance and more consistency is to go with the paid account.

The steal time is probably okay.. it just means oracle is correctly using all availability of resources, there's no need to use it for stress testing of you go over oracle's requirements

if you set "autostart=true" in you supervisor config file it should start even after reboot 12:43

Thanks!

That’s what I was told by Oracle support.

@@TechTute Thanks for the quick response. Planning to get one today but Oracle signup website seems to be under maintenance, hope I can get one soon!

It looks like you have a typo, you are trying to install package 'sypervisorctl' which does not exist the name of the package is 'supervisorctl'. just re-run "apt install supervisorctl" amd it should work.

thank@@TechTute, Im copy in your'website

In that case, I have a typo 🤭. I will go ahead and fix it. Thanks for pointing it out!

Good question! According to Oracle representative I talked to, as long as you meet minimum utilization requirement on any one of the three metrics, your instance should be safe from being reclaimed. Since OCI console only show Network RX TX in Bytes instead of Percent like they do for CPU and Memory, and I don't know exactly how they calculate network utilization I was unable to come up with solid solution to make sure it meets the 15% network utilization load.

@@TechTute Ah okay, thanks!

@@TechTute well you can make a cronjob for downloading 10 gb bin file to /dev/null may be that will give 15 % network load

Were the metrics ever showing? Try to restarting the agent, maybe clear your browser cache see if it helps. Also, what does the agent log say? I think you will have better chance resolving this by reaching out to Oracle Support

@@TechTute Shame on me! My PiHole *telemetry* RegEx blacklist blocked the graphs from being shown. So, I figured it out :D

Hi, did you receive the solution for it? @Colebrath

@@manishbhardwaj6472 Yes, it was my PiHole blocking the oracle metrics queries :D

Welcome

if you have the option to get paid resources, it means you are on pay-as-you-go account and you don't have to worry about having you idle instance reclaimed

That’s a great solution as well. You can use like ramdisk or something.

You can try removing what you installed, and clean up after but no guarantee you won't miss something. If you want fresh OS install your best option is to terminate the instance from Oracle console and launch a new instance.

Thanks

I suppose it comes down to individual priorities. What's a hassle for one might be totally worth it for another.

have you tried doing it once a week only, if so how long did you keep it running for?

@@TechTute i havent tried it yet but as long as you hit the 15% mark once in a week they shouldn' t reclaim it

@@TechTute can you help? i get this error: Bad permissions. Try removing permissions for user: INGEBOUWD\\Gebruikers (S-1-5-32-545) on file C:/Users/flori/Desktop/OracleCloudServer/SSH/ssh-key-2023-06-19.key. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions for 'C:\\Users\\flori\\Desktop\\OracleCloudServer/SSH/ssh-key-2023-06-19.key' are too open. It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. This private key will be ignored. Load key "C:\\Users\\flori\\Desktop\\OracleCloudServer/SSH/ssh-key-2023-06-19.key": bad permissions, it worked fine before

​@@TechTutenews, since my last comments ive just been running my server non-stop. It uses aroumd 7Gigs and its still running!

@@techifyth Hi, does this trick still work? Do you have the VM active to this day with this stressing process only once a week, only the processor?

that's a little more complicated, and you shouldn't have to do it as long as one of the metrics meets the requirements your instance should be OK