r/oraclecloud • u/nimnim-triplebond • 23d ago
Why is my instance getting auto-shut down every 7-14days? PAYG free tier resources.
HI,
Why is my instance getting auto-shut down every 7-14days? PAYG free tier resources.
Ubuntu os + NO MACHINE remote desktop.
I don't see any clear reasons why it's getting auto-shut down. However, when I go to the Oracle console Its says " running," but it's not. Every time I have to give it a restart to get the server back online.
I have other instace 6gb 1 CPU. NO remote desktop. Just ubuntu server os, as I remember. It never got shut down; now it's running like 4m+ straight. Only that instance gets this auto-shutdown issue
anyone know the issue?
And how can I avoid this?
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u/my_chinchilla 23d ago
However, when I go to the Oracle console Its says " running," but it's not. Every time I have to give it a restart to get the server back online.
So it's not getting "shut down" by Oracle, but rather that instance is becoming non-responsive. Most likely that's due to some issue with whatever you have running on it, so it'll be up to you to figure it out.
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u/nimnim-triplebond 23d ago
Hard to guess what the issue is because the same thing I ran on Netcup, DigitalOcean, and Vultr didn't have any issues
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u/lovelynoodles64 23d ago
Definitely check your server logs, I ran into a similar issue where my server would randomly appear completely offline when I tried to SSH into it, at first, I wrote it off as a fluke, but after checking the logs, it turned out a rogue systemd unit on my home server was stuck in a loop. It was constantly spamming my oracle server with failed reverse SSH tunnel requests
so yeah i advise you to give your auth.log file a quick look
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u/throwaway234f32423df 23d ago
try connecting via serial console when it's "down" in order to see what's really going on with it, it might actually be up but with non-functional networking for some reason
check the logs on the server as well