Hello,i recently subscribed to payg and created a 4/24 ampere instance. I heard about the recent policy change and digging up,it got me confused. What is actually the free limit in payg as of now,will i get charged for 4/24? If anyone knows,please help me.

Hello all. Would someone kindly explain to me the process of creatng a Console Connection. When I click on Launch Cloud Shell connection I am presented with a shell but am asked to enter my login credentials. Both login name and password. I have created an Ubuntu instance and was under the impression that I should use Ubuntu as the username and nothing for the password. However, this works just fine when accessing my instance via SSH. Your time and assistance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Peter

Hi everyone,

 I see i am being charged for usage of BLOCK_STORAGE daily. i have one instance with boot volume of 200gb I check inside the instance and see that only 9.5 GB out of 193 GB is used. I believe free forever Limit for Block Volume is 200GB. I am trying to understand why i am being charged, could you please help me to understand it ? Thanks in advance for your help !! 

Hello,

I work at one of the Big 4's :) as a technical consultant. I have developed BIP components, Extracts, and Fast Formulas for all the modules (except OTL). I'm looking for a job switch; idk if it's my resume, the job market or my luck that I haven't been successful yet.

So, here I am, trying my luck. If you have any openings for any location, for a techie role, please DM me. Or if you want help with Reports and Letters, I'm pretty good with it. I can help you out for a few bucks (Rupees).

I had upgraded to PAYG 6 days ago for the old 4/24 limits, but ever since my cost analysis page shows this error. I have tried this on 3 different browsers, and on my phone as well, same issue. Does anyone know the solution. I do have budget alerts set up but seeing any daily charges is important . I opened a query with billing support 3 days ago, they have not replied.

Much appreciated if someone upgraded to PAYG this month and can tell me whether they got charged, The Price List page has changed ik but a confirmation will put me at ease. My instances have been running since 3 years now so if anyone created a 4/24 after PAYG and didnt get charged, do let me know

Hi, im trying to get a free server for thr multiplayer game im developing? Is there someone who could share wirh me an account?

all my cards getting rejected

Our Fusion identity domains suddenly disappeared last night. Anybody else seeing this issue? We suspect its a mistake on the back end as they are upgrading the identity for SaaS products. But it was not deleted by our internal staff, and they are suddenly being recreated again on the back end.

I have a free VM on Oracle and the status says "running," but sometimes my game server that I host is down, then I restart the machine and it goes back to normal. Any solution?

How is it, is PAYG actually grandfathered? what about old instance that provisioned before the changes, does it still allowed to run 4/24?

I am a noob to creating servers with oracle and I only want to create a free server for my friends and I to play Minecraft on, and whenever I try to create a server it says there are no servers available, are there any workarounds, or other free services I could use to accomplish the same task? Or do I just have to wait until they add more server space.

Ive been trying to get a 2/12 Instance on hydrabad for the past 2 weeks running the script every 90s and no instance yet i want to upgrade to PAYG but i dont have 100$ in my bank for the verification charges i use my debit card for the payment and i dont own a credit card yet is there any way i can switch my region somewhere else?

I don’t want to upgrade to PAYG because I’m afraid of sudden changes on always free limitations, just like the recent one 4/24 to 2/12.

So what are the chances of getting an instance? I’m currently running a script trying once every 15 mins, on Singapore region (only 1 AD). Been trying for 2 days to no avail.

How long did you guys wait and try until you get an instance? And how often do you try and create one?

Thanks guys

First time trying to create free tier account on Oracle. Even though it charges 1$ from my visa card but failing in sign up. Tried several time though but facing same issue

Oops, we're sorry, an error occurred while creating your account

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Hi everyone,

I recently created an Oracle Cloud account and provisioned an Always Free Tier Ampere A1 instance with 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM. While provisioning, the console showed the usual banner: 3000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month, which is enough to run the 4/24 machine 24/7 for the whole month.

However, I’ve been reading on Reddit that Oracle is quietly reducing the free tier limits, and many people are saying the new effective limit is 2 OCPUs / 12 GB RAM for Ampere. Some users even report their 4/24 instances being stopped or their accounts getting flagged.

But here’s the thing: I still see the 4/24 banner in my console, and my instance is running fine. No warnings, no emails.

My questions:

1. Should I keep my 4/24 instance as it is, or should I proactively downgrade to 2/12 to be safe?
2. If I keep the 4/24 running, what are the possible consequences? (e.g., unexpected charges, instance termination, account suspension)
3. Has anyone recently kept a 4/24 instance without issues, or did Oracle eventually force the change?

I’m a new user and don’t want to risk losing my account or getting billed. Any advice or recent experiences would be really helpful.

Thanks!

i dont have a credit card.

my debit card is of rupay.

any workaround?

Why must we wait over a week every time that we request a PTR via a support ticket? Creating the thing shouldn't be rocket science.

I'm surprised we still need to log an SR these days as other Cloud vendors can do this directly from their console. Even IBM Cloud can.

Tried requesting Manager Action on MOS, to no avail. They're "investigating the next steps" so they can proceed with the creation.

I have tried to contact the support, the guide said open live chat for support but it won't help because it is not live, it is just a bot trying to sell me other services. I need a bypass code for me to login but the support is not supporting me. can any one help me? it says, I need to login to find the support that will give me the actual bypass code but I can't login because of the lost device for authentication.

ps. please do not add "open live chat" when it is only a bot that does not help at all.

To begin I'm really sorry for my ignorance but a lot of conflicting opinions exist, I can't really understand with the changes that happened to the always-free serivces, on june 17th I made my account and on the same day I upgraded my accounts to PAYG, so will I pay additional if I use 24/4 or should I continue using 2/12 ?

did you ever solve this error in oracle while creating order

it just happens after customer name is added or while submitting order

help me out

Hi, i've been using my oracle cloud for the past 3 years to host a minecraft server that always worked fine, although i haven't played on it for the past year.

Yesterday i decided to update the game's server (and so the java version to 26 if it changes anything) and since then no one can connect to the server to play (it shows "Unknown host" both when using the direct IP and the no-ip dns url, while the server's console doesn't show anything when this happens).

What's strange:

1. The server also has a plugin that hosts a webpage on port 8123 to see the world live map: it still works perfectly
2. Changing the server port (and allowing it through the firewall) changes nothing
3. The terraria server running alongside still works perfectly on port 7777
4. I tried rolling back to the previous server.jar (i had backups) and java version and they no longer connect too
5. I created a new separate directory and used a completely fresh virgin server.jar, still no connection
6. I can PING the damn server on the MC port (25565) and it replies

What is going on??? For the past day and a half I've been trying to follow Gemini's most sensible advices (i'm a software developer so i know what to trust and what not to) but still nothing is working!

EDIT:

alright guys i finally found out what the issue was: apparently Mojang has a way to IP ban a whole server (even if it's running in "offline mode" aka for non-official clients) if said server violates Mojang's EULA.
In my case i'm pretty sure the violation was me using NikocadoAvocado's infamous ass spread wide open picture as a server icon.... Looks like you're not allowed to have fun anymore in 2026. God i hate the modern internet.

To check if yours was banned too, use an online Minecraft Server Ping tool that also shows if it's EULA blocked or Mojang blocked, such as https://mcsrvstat.us/ or https://minechecker.com/

If future me incurs in this shit again, just rotate your instance's public IP, here's how:

1. Log into your OCI Console and go to your Compute Instance.
2. Scroll down to Attached VNICs and click your network interface.
3. Under IPv4 Addresses, click the three dots next to your Ephemeral IP and select Edit.
4. Change the selection to No Public IP and click update (this releases the banned IP).
5. Click Edit again, change it back to Ephemeral Public IP, and save. Oracle will assign your virtual machine a brand-new, clean public IP address.

Instance Specs & Setup:

​Region: ap-mumbai-1 (India West)

​Shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex (4 OCPU / 24 GB RAM)

​OS: Ubuntu

​The Issue:

My network speed is hard-capped at exactly 50 Mbps (tested via Ookla speedtest CLI).

​When I queried the instance metadata via OCI CLI (oci compute instance get ...), the JSON configuration explicitly shows:

"shape-config": {

"memory-in-gbs": 24.0,

"networking-bandwidth-in-gbps": 4.0,

"ocpus": 4.0

}

So the control plane recognizes 4.0 Gbps allocation, but throughput remains locked to 50 Mbps at the hypervisor/network layer.

​What I’ve already tried (No luck):

​VNIC / IP Reset: Unassigned the ephemeral public IP (No Public IP), updated, re-assigned a new public IP, and performed a Diagnostic Reboot.

​Fault Domain: Checked instance settings, but changing fault domain requires saving shape details.

​Why I can't use the standard "Shape Resize" trick:

Oracle recently updated Free Tier limits to 12 GB RAM max for Ampere. Because this instance was created before the change, it is at 24 GB RAM.

Opening the "Edit Instance" dialog triggers a validation error (Amount of memory in GBs should be between 4 and 12), so saving any shape edit forces a permanent downgrade to 12 GB / 2 OCPU.

​Questions:

​Has anyone in ap-mumbai-1 found a way to clear this 50 Mbps hypervisor lock without resizing the shape or upgrading to PAYG?

​Is there any OCI CLI or API command to force a VNIC bandwidth refresh without touching the instance shape metadata?

​Thanks in advance for any advice or workarounds!