I currently have the Always Free Oracle instance (Standard.A1.Flex), but I heard that it gets claimed again by Oracle when it is not actively used anymore (https://docs.oracle.com/...):
Reclamation of Idle Compute Instances: Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:
- CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15%
- Network utilization is less than 15%
- Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)
What do you do to keep it actively used?
I've had mine since 2020, never had an issue. I think it maybe only happens if it's suuuper idle. I run a minecraft server, multiple foundry servers and now lemmy on it.
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