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Oracle Cloud Always Free is a scam

Open nicutor opened this issue 11 months ago • 13 comments

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The Always Free accounts are simple terminated without notice or a way to recover the data. They don't provide any reason for this and you cannot use your account even for paid products.

nicutor avatar Jan 21 '25 11:01 nicutor

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

FelipeFMA avatar Feb 07 '25 21:02 FelipeFMA

I can still create new A1.Flex and E2.1.Micro instances. Started on 02.2022

Make sure that you are actively using the machines

tsgoff avatar Feb 08 '25 15:02 tsgoff

Using Oracle Cloud Always Free, ARM Server.

deependhulla avatar Feb 09 '25 10:02 deependhulla

@tsgoff I've been working there daily for 3 months and then, for no reason, without any notice my account was terminated. The internet is full of people who are complaining about this. I basically lost my entire work there. I had no choice to start paying or such, which is unbelievable.. The owner of this list should at least specify this, at least the people will have a clue about what may or may not happen..

nicutor avatar Feb 11 '25 07:02 nicutor

Yes, we'll add a note about sudden terminations without explanation. Thanks to all contributors for this important discussion.

karentamrazyan avatar Feb 11 '25 07:02 karentamrazyan

Are you talking about the reclaiming feature? If so, it's not random or unexpected. They even warn you about it.

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Boerny41 avatar Feb 24 '25 14:02 Boerny41

Are you talking about the reclaiming feature? If so, it's not random or unexpected. They even warn you about it.

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Obviously not what the OP talks about.

OCI has also terminated my account and all its affiliated resources without any way to reclaim my data.

The twist is: I was a paying customer as well as using an Always Free ARM VM for hosting a small discord bot which never exceeded free tier limits. The data was very important to my business and Oracle support is highly unhelpful.

data-base-911 avatar Mar 23 '25 06:03 data-base-911

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

I've been too until they suspended the account and terminated the tennant out of the blue about a week ago. Support could not tell me why. I've been running no game servers or anything like that but a simple Timezone conversion tool for friends.

2001db8 avatar Apr 06 '25 09:04 2001db8

I've been using it for two years with no problems so far

I've been too until they suspended the account and terminated the tennant out of the blue about a week ago. Support could not tell me why. I've been running no game servers or anything like that but a simple Timezone conversion tool for friends.

lmao, i even break their ToS and nothing happens

FelipeFMA avatar Apr 06 '25 14:04 FelipeFMA

I forgot about it... Apparently, time runs in a different direction for them.

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Mexit avatar Apr 30 '25 09:04 Mexit

I've been using it for 5 years, but I use 8 bots, I'm always using 70% of cpu, 500gb of band every month.

luizpaulonievola avatar May 29 '25 17:05 luizpaulonievola

I forgot about it... Apparently, time runs in a different direction for them.

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It literally says in that message that you are on the always free plan, there was additional services that were offered during the initial period.

oracle is not a scam, they do regulate their products -

this issue can be closed

ghost avatar May 29 '25 21:05 ghost

I don't think they have resources left. They let you go all the way through registration and just tell you there's no resources upon the spinup phaase.

danwdart avatar Jul 11 '25 16:07 danwdart