The A1 has been available for 6 years without a rug pull or reductions until now on a very overly generous offering - whatever you think of oracle, it's something else. My instances from 2020 are still running...

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axus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Years ago I had an Oracle free instance which I shut down, didn't have any use that was worth the security maintenance time.

Recently wanted to make a new free instance at the lowest settings, but my zone is completely overbooked. Oracle does not let you move your free instance to a new zone.

According to what I read, the only way to spin up a new free instance is run a script elsewhere to attempt instance creation every minute using the API; and that takes an average of a couple weeks to bring something up.

	▲	throwaway67743 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Might find you have a better shot when people start resizing

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brazukadev 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

it is still a sign that things aren't going well there

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pixl97 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Possibly, possibly not, honestly you probably can't really tell much from this.

With the RAM and storage costs being out of control it's odd it didn't happen long before now.

On top of that I wonder what running any kind of free service looks like when there are so many AI agents out there that could use and abuse them. Many forms of abuse that were more difficult to automate in the past can likely be monitored and restarted with an agentic loop now.

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throwaway67743 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a negative product line, even half is still negative. People really need to start being grateful while whoring free services....

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brazukadev 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You should be grateful to life, your family, your faith, God if you believe.

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0x262d 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"whoring"?

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throwaway67743 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Reddit,even oracle forums, 99% complaints about free stuff not being available. It's why people don't offer this more regularly - instead of people being gracious it's like they're entitled to it.

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		It is difficult to believe that the king, perched upon his lofty throne, can hear any of what the peasants say in the squalor of the streets of the ghetto far below, on the other side of the lava moat.