Actually googled for some hours to come up with same conclusion described here in 10 minutes. GCP showing estimated cost $7 while it is free ec2-micro was really confusing for me. Thank you.
I have OCI and never looked back. The only issue is you cannot just hold the VM without doing anything cos they will claim them back. So make sure you have something running, even a light load
@@shibanakano According to their email: - Data Region: OPC-GLOBAL - Data Center: EMEA I currently don't have Ampere instances but I had them in the past. I'm currently using 2 AMD nodes only
If you manage to sign up to OCI, then there is. And if you use GCP correctly, you can also have a free server. But as mentioned “with caveats” you need to be careful with outband traffic. However it’s perfect for small things and testing
@@techhub-tv Managed to sign uo with Oracle. The first 2 initiations of an instance failed and although I deleted them every new attempt would now be charged.
for anyone looking to try aws free tier: you will get a slow as a potato server which will crash even if you host a small website making you unable to ssh into it it dosent have a elastic ip (fixed public ip) meaning everytime you stop and restart you will get a new ip if you are hosting a website or reverse proxying it will be a annoying if you want to stop and start the server and also you will need to use a new ssh command everytime. since you get 750 hours of it per month you cant even make two servers or have a fixed ip at the same time for both since either you will cross the hour limit or get a new ip. also its all for one year only. you can get an elastic ip but it will charge you $0.005 per hour only if its associated with a running instance meaning you will be charged only if the server is not running. but still aws is great.
No! Not without a lot of proper setup and security know how. Hosting any DNS resolver publicly is the perfect platform for DOS attacks and is generally bad practice. Look into VPN options such as WireGuard or Tailscale, they can accomplish the same thing
@@robertbordeaux I see yea good point. I do have a pihole running at home on an actual pi, and to access the filtering anywhere I have Openvpn running on it too. Just sometimes would be nice to not be limited by my home broadband upload speed. 🙂
i have the oracle cloud set up here in aus and it works amazing. i use it to run 3 minecraft servers and its free. i feel the error you might be having could be fixed with a vpn
@@techhub-tv Oracle has massive capacity issues for this free tier, new (non-paying) customers have almost no chance. However, if you sign-up as a paying customer and stay within the limits of the free-tier, it should still work.
Thank you for the review. Great work. It looks like a trick with restrictions. How to control outbound or other parameters to fit the free conditions? I don't know it. They suppose to block visitors by IP? Or control logs size to do not exceed 30GB? It looks like kind of deception. This way I prefer cheap VPS where I know for what I will be charged and how much it will be. Maybe you can recommend some ways?
@@techhub-tvI’ve done that still error my old account on google just expired after 3 months now new one same error like bac_15 or soemthing I’ve matched billing everything
The issue might be your debit card. They only accept credit card, I actually talked with the support. Also if you try too often in a short amount of time, you get a light ban...
Aws free tier seems really slow and laggy any help? Microsoft azure is fine but when I try to go to certain websites like ticketmaster it blocks like it does if I was using a vpn but on aws that doesn’t happen anyone know why?
This isn't exactly true about AWS. I use the free tier on AWS and you can get the smallest EC2 instance on there. It gives you exactly the hours to keep it live 24/7 for one month. The only catch there is the storage for that instance is on the free for one year tier. So you have to be careful to configure it without persistent storage.
Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴ Nothing is free in this life. If it’s not costing money, it’s costing something else. If you got it free! someone paid for it. Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. Usually your private credential to third-party seller.
I believe that in this case it is calculated “free”, meaning that in the end enough of those who use a free VM eventually purchase something else. When you are always on the platform it’s sort of tempting to purchase something for the ease of use
I have oracle free account and i use 3 VPSs one running my Minecraft server with 4 core 24gm ram vps and the other 2 amds one running n8n automation and the other running VPN. So oracle works. I can guarantee that. And also it's been more than 1 years of usage.
@@zfeddine i don't have pay as you go account. but some say if you have pay as you go account you can still experience free forever repossess without any limitation. Sometimes free options not available for free accounts. there are limited i think like 400 to 500 instances. After that it says out of capacity. If someone accidentally deleted or something you can get it. It also hard cz lots of ppl run bots to get that instance the right it get deleted. So no no if you have one hold it to your life. Or upgrade to pay as you go. 😅
@@techhub-tv I once accidentally got like $300 in debt for GCE and I talked to google support and they waived it for me as a one-time courtesy. I still do not remember how I got it, I probably forgot to turn something off and it was so long ago that I forgot whatever it was that I forgot about. Still, Google is pretty not bad
I think it started with cable television and Cartoon Network 😀 then a lot of practice at work. But no, I did not live in US although been there many times
Not actually true, watch it again. There are a lot of factors and specifications, as you can see the lists and limits imposed on the free-tier GCP. You have to strictly fall within those conditions. Only then it is free and the reason for providing credit/debit card is that, it is used for the verification purposes.
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same here
Actually googled for some hours to come up with same conclusion described here in 10 minutes. GCP showing estimated cost $7 while it is free ec2-micro was really confusing for me. Thank you.
Glad it helped you :)
I have OCI and never looked back. The only issue is you cannot just hold the VM without doing anything cos they will claim them back. So make sure you have something running, even a light load
Thank you for sharing
which region do you have
and can you still make a1 ampere instances?
@@shibanakano According to their email:
- Data Region: OPC-GLOBAL
- Data Center: EMEA
I currently don't have Ampere instances but I had them in the past. I'm currently using 2 AMD nodes only
Heyy, can you tell me how to get past the credit card failure error
They've never asked for mine
TLDR; there are no free servers available.
Thanks, you saved me 12 minutes
@@_Niels__ TLDR; there's one on Oracle and GCP with some caveats.
If you manage to sign up to OCI, then there is. And if you use GCP correctly, you can also have a free server. But as mentioned “with caveats” you need to be careful with outband traffic. However it’s perfect for small things and testing
@@techhub-tv Managed to sign uo with Oracle. The first 2 initiations of an instance failed and although I deleted them every new attempt would now be charged.
@@20cmusicI registered with oracle cloud like 2 years ago and it still works for free for me at least
for anyone looking to try aws free tier:
you will get a slow as a potato server which will crash even if you host a small website making you unable to ssh into it
it dosent have a elastic ip (fixed public ip) meaning everytime you stop and restart you will get a new ip
if you are hosting a website or reverse proxying it will be a annoying if you want to stop and start the server and also you will need to use a new ssh command everytime.
since you get 750 hours of it per month you cant even make two servers or have a fixed ip at the same time for both since either you will cross the hour limit or get a new ip.
also its all for one year only.
you can get an elastic ip but it will charge you $0.005 per hour only if its associated with a running instance meaning you will be charged only if the server is not running.
but still aws is great.
You've saved me at least 30 minutes of research. Thank you very much.
I subscribed to your channel. Keep posting helpful videos like this one.
Thank you! Good to have you here :)
OCI looks fantastic but could never figure out how to signup
Great video. Honest, to the point, well-researched.
Glad it was helpful!
Could the Google Cloud compute vm be used to make a pihole that can be accessed anywhere?
Sure you can access your vm from any place
@@techhub-tv good to know, I'll add the video to my watch later to remind me 🙂 thanks
No! Not without a lot of proper setup and security know how. Hosting any DNS resolver publicly is the perfect platform for DOS attacks and is generally bad practice. Look into VPN options such as WireGuard or Tailscale, they can accomplish the same thing
@@robertbordeaux How exactly?
does any attacker know their DNS' IP ? How would they dos it ?
@@robertbordeaux I see yea good point. I do have a pihole running at home on an actual pi, and to access the filtering anywhere I have Openvpn running on it too. Just sometimes would be nice to not be limited by my home broadband upload speed. 🙂
i have the oracle cloud set up here in aus and it works amazing. i use it to run 3 minecraft servers and its free. i feel the error you might be having could be fixed with a vpn
You might be right, I do know people who also use oci free VMs. But yes… I tried numerous times from work and home and failed to sign up
@@techhub-tv Oracle has massive capacity issues for this free tier, new (non-paying) customers have almost no chance. However, if you sign-up as a paying customer and stay within the limits of the free-tier, it should still work.
can you run it 24/7 for months or is there a limits?
@@Bread-g3c I've been running mine 24/7 for over a year now with no issues
You can't even sign up for oracle. They will always refund your transaction. I have tried like 3 times with different cards and everything even VPNs
with those configs, gcp vm will free forever even after 90 days trial?
Thank you for the review. Great work. It looks like a trick with restrictions. How to control outbound or other parameters to fit the free conditions? I don't know it. They suppose to block visitors by IP? Or control logs size to do not exceed 30GB? It looks like kind of deception. This way I prefer cheap VPS where I know for what I will be charged and how much it will be. Maybe you can recommend some ways?
Hi,
For me i can use indian Gold credit card and it worked for oracle
Card is from canara bank Visa one
thanks for the hard work you took for creating the video it helped me a lot and good luck, iam not good at english so discard any grammer mistake
While sign up for gcp alwyz it gives m error in payment method i used multiple debit cards
make sure that address matches
@@techhub-tvI’ve done that still error my old account on google just expired after 3 months now new one same error like bac_15 or soemthing I’ve matched billing everything
The issue might be your debit card. They only accept credit card, I actually talked with the support. Also if you try too often in a short amount of time, you get a light ban...
@@T4kue im trying 6-12montha afterwrds
and what happens after 90 days? Then the free period is over?
Aws free tier seems really slow and laggy any help? Microsoft azure is fine but when I try to go to certain websites like ticketmaster it blocks like it does if I was using a vpn but on aws that doesn’t happen anyone know why?
Aws might get throttling on cpu or ebs if there’s high load
This isn't exactly true about AWS. I use the free tier on AWS and you can get the smallest EC2 instance on there. It gives you exactly the hours to keep it live 24/7 for one month. The only catch there is the storage for that instance is on the free for one year tier. So you have to be careful to configure it without persistent storage.
You are right, BUT, according to aws page this works for 12 months only
@@techhub-tv Yes you're right, looks like I'm wrong. I wonder if they changed it recently. Thanks for correcting me!
Thank you so much for this video! very helpfull
You're so welcome!
Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴
Nothing is free in this life.
If it’s not costing money, it’s costing something else.
If you got it free! someone paid for it.
Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for.
Usually your private credential to third-party seller.
I believe that in this case it is calculated “free”, meaning that in the end enough of those who use a free VM eventually purchase something else.
When you are always on the platform it’s sort of tempting to purchase something for the ease of use
I also tried oracle can't sign up
i actually also failed to sign up to oracle
Looks like they haven’t fixed the problem after all this time :/
Good detailed video feel like a little more editing would have gone a long way but none the less great information!
Really good work.. keep going
Thank you much ❤️
ALSO IF IT CAN USE ON LAPTOP
my same issue with my card 😅!!!
Great video.
Nice compete guide. Well done.
dude. there is at least an entire world outside the three servers in mainland usa. this is not sufficient.
a frog in a deep hole. swimming around alone.
I have oracle free account and i use 3 VPSs one running my Minecraft server with 4 core 24gm ram vps and the other 2 amds one running n8n automation and the other running VPN. So oracle works. I can guarantee that. And also it's been more than 1 years of usage.
oracle now give 30days only 😢
@@zfeddine is this real? The site still says free forever right?
@@zfeddine i don't have pay as you go account. but some say if you have pay as you go account you can still experience free forever repossess without any limitation. Sometimes free options not available for free accounts. there are limited i think like 400 to 500 instances. After that it says out of capacity. If someone accidentally deleted or something you can get it. It also hard cz lots of ppl run bots to get that instance the right it get deleted. So no no if you have one hold it to your life. Or upgrade to pay as you go. 😅
what happens if you go over 1gb? Do they charge you? Is there a way to prevent it or stop it so I don't get changed?
You have to pay for exceeded traffic, but only for outbound and outside of VM region
What if you exceed 1GB, and you have card with no money registered?
@@replikvltyoutube3727 I think it is called debt :)
@@techhub-tv I once accidentally got like $300 in debt for GCE and I talked to google support and they waived it for me as a one-time courtesy. I still do not remember how I got it, I probably forgot to turn something off and it was so long ago that I forgot whatever it was that I forgot about. Still, Google is pretty not bad
About oracle just contact with oracle support 😅
honest advice, just buy stolen fully verified account, dont waste your time going through the hoops
Офигенный английский у вас! вы жили в США что бы так говорить или как изучали ?
I think it started with cable television and Cartoon Network 😀 then a lot of practice at work. But no, I did not live in US although been there many times
@@techhub-tv хотел бы говорить так же круто как вы...
Um, it's Amazon. And you expect them to not sell your data, use it to their advantage, etc.???😆
I guess that’s the world we live in
i wanna macro for bee swarm
lol
It´s not free! Dislike.
Cringe
What's cringe about this?
fake and misleading...
Not actually true, watch it again. There are a lot of factors and specifications, as you can see the lists and limits imposed on the free-tier GCP. You have to strictly fall within those conditions. Only then it is free and the reason for providing credit/debit card is that, it is used for the verification purposes.
How? Explain properly. OCI works if you have a card, ONLY for verification.
How is this fake?
@@ILyaCyclone yeah mate, this guy can't even watch for more than 4 minutes.