Has anyone noticed that oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances?
I just checked their docs:
- CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 20%
- Network utilization is less than 20%
- Memory utilization is less than 20% (applies to A1 shapes only)
In May it was 15% and in March it was 10%.
Is there anyway I can keep my compute instance without having them keep reclaiming it?
You could switch to a company that isn’t openly hostile to its customers.
I think a good question for newcool1230@lemm.ee is why Oracle. If they don’t have a reason to be using it, this is a great suggestion.
I’ve tried a few others but Oracle was the only one that kinda worked for me. I’m open to switching to other providers if you have any suggestions. @SheeEttin@lemmy.world @thesmokingman@programming.dev
What about Oracle made it work for you over others? Have you looked at the minors like Linode or DigitalOcean?
So I’m SUPPOSED to run a miner to keep mine from being overly idle??
This also helps with scoring an A1 instance in the first place. Took several days to get my first one (using the script). And then when I wanted to nuke that one to recreate it I instantly hit the “out of capacity” message again.
Switched to a PAYG account and instantly got a new instance. Still never pay a dime.
Sounds like you need some more hobbies to throw at it. :-)
You could always inflate the numbers by giving it artificial load but I imagine that breaks a ToS somewhere.
Wait, so I understood it on the opposite way? They kick you out if you don’t use enough free resources?
