Yeah, 100 GB block storage in the free tier is nothing to turn your nose up at. Seems good for a Nextcloud instance at least.
EDIT: Granted, specs are one thing, getting it to work is another. Looks like the folks at LET are having a lousy time of things. I’m fine with letting the dust clear before doing much.
They just want you to stick your ‘gender-neutral appendage’ in their hosted database product and get hooked.
NA-UH
NOPE
NEIN
NON
No
Genitals?
OPEN GENITALS!?
It’s just a free service. Stop racking the O in Oracle, or it becomes O’ Rack LE
Is it possible to do OS reinstall without destroying the instance? By destroying the instance public IP is lost and there’s a risk of loosing the free VM (“Out of host capacity” errors).
At most VPS providers you can “just” reinstall the OS and/or change it while keeping the instance itself. As all it usually does is reformat the virtual disk(s).
Right but here in Oracle Cloud there’s no reinstall option. Has anyone tried this?
Could you instead attach an ISO and do it that way? Or a virtual CD ROM? Just like how you would IPMI into a bare metal?
Nope, the only option I can see is to terminate the instance and recreate it.
‘Cloud VMs’ are cattle, not pets.
So, usually no.
The European network (from Zurich) is great
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Speedtest Monster v.1.4.4 2019-10-09
Region: Europe https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sh speedtest.sh -Europe
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OS : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64
CPU Model : AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 1996.249 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
Load Average : 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
Total Space : 39G (3.0G ~8% used)
Total RAM : 371 MB / 987 MB (463 MB Buff)
Total SWAP : 271 MB / 8191 MB
Uptime : 7 days 1:37
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ASN & ISP : AS31898, Oracle Corporation
Organization : Oracle Public Cloud
Location : Zurich, Switzerland / CH
Region : Zurich
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## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 1375 (POOR)
Multi Core : 1554
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 25.6 MB/s
sha256 : 199 MB/s
md5sum : 95.9 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 755.0 MB/s
Avg. read : 2560.0 MB/s
Disk Write Speed:
1st run : 54.2 MB/s
2dn run : 49.8 MB/s
3rd run : 50.4 MB/s
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Average : 51.5 MB/s
## Europe Speedtest
Location Upload Download Ping
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Speedtest.net 50.58 Mbit/s 1.86 Mbit/s 1.69 ms
Ireland, Dublin (Digiweb) 42.25 Mbit/s 31.07 Mbit/s 39.055 ms
UK, London (Community Fibre) 47.89 Mbit/s 47.57 Mbit/s 24.746 ms
Netherlands, Amsterdam (MaxiTEL) 48.43 Mbit/s 48.11 Mbit/s 34.726 ms
Germany, Berlin (DNS:NET) 49.78 Mbit/s 48.25 Mbit/s 23.724 ms
Germany, Munich (InterNetX) 48.35 Mbit/s 48.69 Mbit/s 12.236 ms
Denmark, Copenhagen (Fiberby) 48.70 Mbit/s 48.63 Mbit/s 13.124 ms
Sweden, Stockholm (SUNET) 49.55 Mbit/s 43.36 Mbit/s 39.678 ms
Norway, Oslo (NextGenTel) 49.40 Mbit/s 47.14 Mbit/s 25.109 ms
Spain, Madrid (Adamo) 49.99 Mbit/s 39.57 Mbit/s 46.571 ms
Portugal, Lisbon (Evolute) 45.51 Mbit/s 47.23 Mbit/s 56.177 ms
Italy, Rome (Unidata) 48.83 Mbit/s 46.47 Mbit/s 12.374 ms
Czechia, Prague (365internet) 48.22 Mbit/s 37.46 Mbit/s 12.446 ms
Austria, Vienna (Fonira) 49.94 Mbit/s 47.08 Mbit/s 17.244 ms
Poland, Warsaw (Orange) 50.26 Mbit/s 47.96 Mbit/s 23.086 ms
Slovakia, Kosice (ANTIK) 46.88 Mbit/s 48.23 Mbit/s 22.868 ms
Ukraine, Kyiv (KyivStar) 48.48 Mbit/s 42.49 Mbit/s 40.219 ms
Latvia, Riga (Bite) 47.03 Mbit/s 47.89 Mbit/s 39.811 ms
Russia, St.Petersburg (Prometey) 47.65 Mbit/s 35.63 Mbit/s 51.486 ms
Russia, Moscow (MTS) 11.53 Mbit/s 37.22 Mbit/s 74.498 ms
Romania, Bucharest (Orange) 41.98 Mbit/s 48.97 Mbit/s 69.909 ms
Greece, Athens (GRNET) 44.53 Mbit/s 46.18 Mbit/s 46.044 ms
Turkey, Istanbul (Radore) 50.18 Mbit/s 42.90 Mbit/s 51.140 ms
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Finished in : 17 min 28 sec
Timestamp : 2019-10-09 22:26:02 UTC
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
Share results:
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- https://clbin.com/4a5z9
I’m not sure about Latin America (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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Speedtest Monster v.1.4.4 2019-10-09
Region: South-America https://bench.monster/speedtest.html
Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; sh speedtest.sh -South-America
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OS : CentOS 7.7.1908 (64 Bit)
Virt/Kernel : KVM / 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64
CPU Model : AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
CPU Cores : 2 @ 1996.249 MHz x86_64 512 KB Cache
CPU Flags : AES-NI Enabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
Load Average : 0.17, 0.10, 0.06
Total Space : 39G (3.2G ~9% used)
Total RAM : 318 MB / 987 MB (438 MB Buff)
Total SWAP : 261 MB / 8191 MB
Uptime : 4 days 23:24
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ASN & ISP : AS31898, Oracle Corporation
Organization : Oracle Public Cloud
Location : Seattle, United States / US
Region : Washington
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## Geekbench v4 CPU Benchmark:
Single Core : 1411 (POOR)
Multi Core : 1548
## IO Test
CPU Speed:
bzip2 : 27.5 MB/s
sha256 : 198 MB/s
md5sum : 105 MB/s
RAM Speed:
Avg. write : 839.7 MB/s
Avg. read : 2457.6 MB/s
Disk Write Speed:
1st run : 54.7 MB/s
2dn run : 51.0 MB/s
3rd run : 51.9 MB/s
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Average : 52.5 MB/s
## South America Speedtest
Location Upload Download Ping
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Speedtest.net 37.19 Mbit/s 28.05 Mbit/s * 263.336 ms
Brazil, Sao Paulo (Vogel Telecom) 49.68 Mbit/s 47.39 Mbit/s 2.928 ms
Brazil, Fortaleza (Claro) 39.36 Mbit/s 37.54 Mbit/s 91.657 ms
Colombia, Bogota (Level 3) 45.18 Mbit/s 45.46 Mbit/s 114.330 ms
Ecuador, Quito (Iplanet) 12.92 Mbit/s 20.35 Mbit/s 129.163 ms
Peru, Lima (Fiberluxperu) 50.05 Mbit/s 36.74 Mbit/s 78.477 ms
Bolivia, La Paz (Sirio) 46.72 Mbit/s 23.85 Mbit/s 99.929 ms
Paraguay, Asuncion (Personal) 47.00 Mbit/s 46.24 Mbit/s 62.712 ms
Chile, Santiago (Netglobalis) 49.22 Mbit/s 1.58 Mbit/s 48.388 ms
Argentina, Buenos Aires (Telefonica) 50.16 Mbit/s 44.74 Mbit/s 28.775 ms
Uruguay, Montevideo (Antel) 49.53 Mbit/s 44.32 Mbit/s 38.190 ms
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Finished in : 12 min 19 sec
Timestamp : 2019-10-09 22:20:45 UTC
Saved in : /root/speedtest.log
Share results:
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Huh, I signed up for a free account/service.
I made sure to only provision the kind that would stay free, though I had these 30 days of promo credits.
After the 30 days were up, it seems both my account and VM is actually deleted …
So much for free service … I was planning on testing an ARM VM, but nevermind, then … 
I experienced the same thing over a year ago, good to know it’s not just me.
I don’t really like Oracle or their systems, so I’ll just forget about it.
Too bad, as Solaris is pretty nice. 
Odd. I had the oppsite. I just discovered an account I had set up 3 years ago in Germany that was still there. Even though I hadn’t logged in at all in that time. No instances running on it though.
I just setup a UK instance on a new account. So in theory I can now have 4 instances 
Still slow boxes, but they are free so 
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 40 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core Processor
CPU cores : 2 @ 1996.249 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 963.8 MiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 45.1 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 22.10
Kernel : 5.19.0-1010-oracle
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k (IOPS) | 64k (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 6.29 MB/s (1.5k) | 26.09 MB/s (407)
Write | 6.29 MB/s (1.5k) | 26.53 MB/s (414)
Total | 12.58 MB/s (3.1k) | 52.62 MB/s (821)
| |
Block Size | 512k (IOPS) | 1m (IOPS)
------ | --- ---- | ---- ----
Read | 24.48 MB/s (47) | 23.94 MB/s (23)
Write | 25.99 MB/s (50) | 26.70 MB/s (26)
Total | 50.48 MB/s (97) | 50.64 MB/s (49)
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
| | |
Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 491 Mbits/sec | 486 Mbits/sec
Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | busy | busy
Hybula | The Netherlands (40G) | 483 Mbits/sec | 487 Mbits/sec
Uztelecom | Tashkent, UZ (10G) | 458 Mbits/sec | busy
Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 458 Mbits/sec | 440 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Dallas, TX, US (10G) | 451 Mbits/sec | 439 Mbits/sec
Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 434 Mbits/sec | 444 Mbits/sec
Geekbench 5 test failed. Run manually to determine
Yeah I think there were some issues with new accounts being deleted after the 30 day trial around that time last year. I haven’t heard anything about that issue cropping up in quite a while. But I do keep hearing issues with accounts being deleted when accessed via VPN and, by extension, a data center IP address.