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0 pointsdaneel_w3y ago0 comments

If your tenancy is unpaid your "always free"-classed instances can be terminated without notice in order to provide capacity for a paid tenancy when necessary. You can upgrade to paid tenancy and simply keep using "always free" resources for a $0.00 monthly bill.

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IceWreck3y ago

I'm still on unpaid tenancy and oracle docs say that reclaim servers which are under or overutilized.

I use my oracle free servers (and one paid vps on hetzner) as automatic cloud fallbacks if my homelab is inaccessible over the internet for some reason. Which means I fall in the underutilized category as most of the time workload is under 2%. So I "fake" work to prevent reclaimation by oracle and its worked well so far.

``` # Oracle Cloud reclaims idle resources # https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

- name: Create cronjob for minimum CPU utilization

  ansible.builtin.cron:

    name: fake work to prevent re-claimation

    special_time: hourly

    job: timeout 30s sha1sum /dev/zero

```

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