How to Get a Free Linux Server in the Cloud – Oracle Cloud Free Tier

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• I'd like to caution that I have had the free server for almost a year.

  Today I got a bunch of alerts that my sites were down. I logged in and my volumes, instances, backups, EVERYTHING was deleted without notice. As I looked into this more, there were another handful of people who said the same thing happened to them in the last 24 hours.

  I would exercise extreme caution. You are not able to contact support using a free account. In my case whatever they did also prevented me form upgrading to a paid account or creation a support thread in the forms.

  Service was great, would not recommend for anything critical.

• Can anyone Explain? 🔬This is so frustrating, I have tried 6 different payment cards. Both Credit and debit, some Visa and some Mastercard, but each time I get the dreaded "Error processing transaction" message. The strange part is that my banks successfully allow payments as I can see a payment pending notice on the online banking webpages.

  Here is the Error from Oracle's the website:

  "Error processing transaction
  
  We're unable to complete your sign up. Common sign up errors are due to: (a) Using prepaid cards. Oracle only accepts credit card and debit cards (b) Intentionally or unintentionally masking one's location or identity (c) Entering incomplete or inaccurate account details. Please try again if this applies to you. Otherwise, contact Oracle Customer Service."

  Every time I contact Oracle I get an email back saying:

  "Hello, Unfortunately, we are unable to resolve this or process the transaction. This is all the information we can provide. Regards, Customer Service Agent"

  I am wondering if possibly Oracle could be collecting personal information from people tiring to sign up, it all seems very doggy behaviour when banks see no problems with allowing payments to go through but Oracle still do not allow you in on their services.

• The server instance gets deleted automatically, so many users reported the same in the community. Very bad experience from Oracle cloud.

• Is port 25 open?

• No more free boot volumes…

• It's impossible to sign up.

• And here I am still cannot create a Free Tier VPS. Still out of host capacity (Asia;SG)

• how can i login using a password now?

• I'll help everyone out that stumbles on this vid…it ain't free. Well I'm sure you could dwindle the services down to weaker than raspberry pi zero, but what's the point of that? I guess just to say you did?

  Oh…and good luck finding an open data center. I would have paid a few bucks just to not have wasted my time.

• Can't sign in

• I don't have a credit card :C

• always got an out of capacity message

• Sounded great, just what I needed, a free VPS. Signed up, filled in my email address, name, home details, super secret password and credit card. Details correct, card accepted, but for some reason they couldn't identify my location, even though I'd just given it to them? Tried again, no verified location, no deal, couldn't get any further. Gave up 🙁

• It's bad, it looks like amateurish already when loading an account for a Free Oracle Cloud Service account. I repeated the creation of the account several times, everything was always confirmed (e-mail, payment card) but the account for use was never created and it reports some unspecified error. Inspected. I had everything valid, correct and no VPN. location EU Czech Republic.
  I lost my confidence. If it can't create an account on the Internet, what do other cloud services look like! I'm running away.

• Hi, I have commented on many videos like this but no one answered me, but I want to know what happens if I have many user visitors on my personal website when the server bandwidth is unlimited?

• The first sample is always free; that's how they hook you! 😋

• The Ampere offering is the only way to fly: 4 cores, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage, and 4Gbps

• Thanks for the video @GaryExplains. I appreciate the effort, but I must admit this was a bad recommendation. I had no problem with providing my credit card (the validity of which was confirmed by deducting cca 1 USD and returning it immediately). But the problem is that they require you to 'Enable Secure Verification' or else your account cannot be used. They offer 2 options: using a FIDO Authenticator (which I have no intention purchasing for this purpose) and the other is installing a rather bad mobile app ('Oracle Mobile Authenticator'). Now since I really wanted to set this up, I put aside the frustration such crap brings up in me and installed it. And after spending 30 more minutes in trying to make it work (even the registration link they send in the e-mail does not work) I decided it is too much crap to swallow and simply gave it up. I must admit that I am amazed how user-unfriendly the Oracle platforms were all along the process.

  The fun part is that it is not even clear to me how can I close my account with Oracle. Wow, really awful!

• Greetings! What do you say about Ampere with 4 core and 24GB? They write that I have free first 3000 CPU hours and 18000GB hours per month. 4*24*30 = 2880 and 24*24*30 = 17280, so less then limits. What should I do for use this offer?

• Thanks been struggling with getting the ssh keys to work in Linux, they work just fine in Putty on that other Os! Perhaps a video on using the config folder for ssh keys?

• Getting Payment issues while signing up

  Error processing transaction

  We're unable to complete your sign up. Common sign up errors are due to: (a) Using prepaid cards. Oracle only accepts credit card and debit cards (b) Intentionally or unintentionally masking one's location or identity (c) Entering incomplete or inaccurate account details. Please try again if this applies to you. Otherwise, contact Oracle Customer Service.

• 😢I Don't have a credit card, Please.. anyone can help me to create a Oracle free tier account?

• Nothing is Free

  If you are Not Paying,
  You are the Product. 😂

• its requesting a two step validation system in which one is forced either to download an app on the cel (thus sacrificing all your info) or using a FIDO authentication key… unfortunate

• I tried half a dozen time always errors out with transaction processing error mesg -its common issue it seems

• ALWAYS take advantage of these promos! IBM did one and I had free mainfame access for a year. Invaluable experience.

• There's a catch… They will reclaim the resources if your usage don't match their terms. But you can start the VMs again, after they reclaim it.

• Oracle has so horrible reputation, sending you enormous bill, that I cannot accept the offer validating my request with my payment card, even it is free, I consider it is too risky.

• I created an account after watching this video, created a Linux VM and installed WireGuard on it. After working nice for a week, I suddenly could not access the server. I created a support ticket and it took 8 days for them to tell me that my account has been suspended. No prior warning, no e-mail, nothing. And the link support provided to reactivate my account does not work. This free tier is just a joke. Please stay away from it if you want to keep yourself sane.

• The problem for me, is that their system wont let me in with any debig or credit card I've tried. Always says there was a error processing payment

• It’s such a buggy sign up process that ties you to a credit card etc. Not a big deal but it doesn’t actually seem to want to work so… there’s that 😒

• Past 1 year i'm trying to register it with different Email id's and different credit cards . But always the payment it fails

• I had it for about a month. When I came back the instance is gone. I selected always free image and arm processor. Was going to start some lessons on ncurses. Always back up your data.

• Wasn't able to allocate Ampere VM in Frankfurt region. Capacity is not available. And you can't change region. Micro is available only. So region choice seems matters.

• Does it work for any country?

• I have been using the free tier for a month now and so far everything is running smoothly. Setting up an IPv6 address was a bit tricky. But it works now. Sending mail does not work because outgoing ports 25 and 465 are blocked. However, I do not need this feature at the moment. You can apply to have these ports opened if you need them, as far as I know.

• would be nice if it didnt refuse all my cards

• they still charge usd5, oracle are cheaters

• oracle customer service is the worst among all services, I cant signup and they cannot help me at all when I email them

• "free"
  * still requires your credit card information *

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