How to use the Oracle Cloud free offer and create an Ubuntu Cloud VPS PC on Oracle Cloud using xRDP
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- In this video i will show you how you can create you own FREE Ubuntu VPS (Cloud PC0 on the Oracle Cloud Infastructure (a.k.a. OCI) and connect to it using the standard Windows Remote Connection application that uses RDP
Since making this video, even though Oracle advertise this as a FREE FOREVER offer, there are a number of people who seem to have had the VPS closed by Oracle. SO HAVE A BACKUP OF ANY WORK YOU DO ON THE VPS, JUST IN CASE.
The Credit Card requirement was intrby Oracle to ensure that there was a REAL PERSON sighing up, and not an inernet bot. They may remove 1 pound from the Credit Card then pug it back, to prove its a real card, but they wont charge you, so making the result a free VPS.
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CONTENT CHAPTERS
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0:00 Video Purpose
0:56 Cloud Tech Introduction
1.06 Always free Offer
1:06 The Oracle Cloud Always Free Offer
2:25 Creating an Oracle Cloud Instance
6:22 Connect to the Oracle Cloud Instance via SSH
7:50 Configure the Oracle Cloud Instance
10:42 Connect to the Oracle Cloud Instance via RDP
12:45 The UA-cam End Cards
Oracle free tier Q&A VIDEO : • Your Questions Answere...
THE FIVE CONFIGURATION COMMANDS :
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1. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
2. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop xrdp stacer -y
3. sudo cp /etc/iptables/rules.v4 /etc/iptables/rules.v4.bak && sudo truncate -s 0 /etc/iptables/rules.v4
4. sudo rm /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.color.policy
5. sudo passwd ubuntu Example password : t6y1x9n6h7j1 so long,complex and not in a dictionary
then
sudo reboot
PLEASE NOTE : Since making this video, there are a couple of settings that I have found that speed up the responsiveness of this Videos Ubuntu VPS noticeably. The Video explaining what they are is only abound 4 minutes long, and can be found here : cloudtechlinks.com/How-to-Spe... - Наука та технологія
Well Played! It has been decades (1990's) since I last used Linux in pursuit of some display driver development. I am unfamiliar with any modern distributions. Your video has helped bring me back into that world, especially the command line help. Please continue your noble work while I find what Linux has to offer an aging coder now in my eighth decade. Many thanks!
Ditto. I had to use dial-up-internet to download my first Linux kernel 😱
Linux has evolved a lot! Its more accessible than ever, and frankly, just the best system.
Thanks for the video. I didnt know you could get that much resources out of it. Been using the standard settings.
Yes Their Turn With The Braincell
Awesome! thank you so much, it worked as instructed. I was struggling for a bit before I found your video.
Muchas gracias estuve sufriendo tratando de configurarlo ya logre acceder graficamente
It's important to note the firewall rule he created allows RDP from everywhere. Please practice good security and limit access for real world configs.
how can we solve this for more security?
@@escada-nocode Restrict the source to a known IP would be a good start.
@@wyohman00 Not like he made it unsecure though, making you add a secure and strong password, also the other people would need your IP and need to know its an ubuntu machine (not like its impossible to find that but it'd still take a while)
Super neat! This opens a world of possibilities to the curious and the driven hacker and DIYer. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this video! Your instructions were easy to follow. I was up and running in no time.
Cloud Tech, you are gentleman for doing what you do, thank you my friend. I tip my hat to you sir ! 😄
This is amazing. I have setup various instances in many cloud offerings. But this is the first time I am able to have an Ubuntu desktop to play with. You're GOAT!
What do you mean? You can install Ubuntu Server in any VMs on AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. And then install a desktop environment and XRDP into it.
Thank you for such a thorough and valuable tutorial. I am going to tell all my friends about this and share the video. This is exactly what I needed. I cannot tell you how many VPS I've tried to use and nothing (including the official websites) has given such precise information. You saved the day!
Idk why it feels like you are being sarcastic lol
same with me
This will help a lot of folks! Great explanation, keep making more and more videos.
That's the plan!
good tutorial. for some reason i had to add ingress rule to allow port. but best video of this kind so far.
You omitted to tell that they are asking for credit card registation.
Also if you use a visa it won't work...
@@TheGhostzZ yeah
The credit card is just for validation that you are a real person, nothing will be deducted
No, they didn't leave that out. They literally said it in the video.
I tried putting both virtual and physical card from revoult , both are not working.
Very good tutorial! It looks like some things may have (subtly) changed since you released the video, and maybe some of the limits have increased?, but I was able to follow along and create a virtual Ubuntu machine (oh, and it now supports version 22.04)
Thanks so much for creating this! And simultaneously, curse you for how much free-time I'm going to spend playing with this. (lol)
Yes you are right
Nahh i can't do anything. i installed Ubuntu 22.04 and i can't find ubuntu software center or any browser i tried installing maybe 4 browser using terminal but i always run into problems. The last one was with Microsoft edge browser, the last line an error appeared like can't locate file... I tried re installing ubuntu software center it says installed successful but i can't find it please help
great video :) also congrats on 1000 subs ;)
Thank you for the video and thank you especially for showing me Stacer, that program is awesome!
Nice explanation! Good to know, thanks~
Glad it was helpful!
@@cloud-tech bro is it for 1 year?
Thank you so much! Great video! Only a question: Openin an MP3 file (or an audio file) I can't hear audio on my PC. Are there particular settings? I olready use RDP solution for other computer and I can listen to music from remote PC. Thanks
Thank you very much for this i tried setting up tightvnc but couldn't ssh with the private key anywhere but using your method i successfully got gui using putty and rdp🙏
Too good. Thank you.
Was really helpful for the setup. Cheers !
Glad it helped!
Is there an option to run the 30-day trial later than during registration?
Thank you so much, ive never used linux before but you explained it so well I managed to do this on the first try. Keep it up
Did you got it for 1 month or its unlimited time?
free forever is next to my server name
@@zahin3905 unlimited
@@shrigmian bro how do i bypass cc verification
@@zahin3905 you cant
Worked like a charm! Thanks!
Absolutely wonderful! thank you!
For some reasons the method for generating a SSH key you used refuse to work for me. I've never managed to reach an Oracle VM with PuTTY. Only with Termius for MAC because it natively support the openssh private key without any conversion.
Excellent video well explained.
Glad you liked it
thank you so much for this video it’s so detail for me to understand ❤
Excellent. Just got myself a free VM. Thanks !!!
I don't think it's wise to expose port 3389, and especially if xrdp runs as root.
I think it's better to tunnel via SSH port 22
Thanks a lot bro, as a student this is really helpful to host stuff without paying.
I am surprised I never knew about Oracle Cloud, they offer an amazing amount of free stuff. Thanks!
Thank you so much! Really helpful.
Great video! I was able to connect via Putty but failed via Remote Desktop in Windows, cannot figure why.
You might have not set it up properly. I'm assuming you installed Ubuntu Server instead of the Desktop version.
Excellent video. Only one that made me get the GUI. Kudos! Do you have any videos on how to connect to the same cloud instances on mac? Also dash panel is horizontally placed, how can we get the panel fixed vertically?
should be able to use any rdp client available on mac
you can use Microsoft Remote Desktop for mac to connect, I am using it
If you're into "that whole brevity thing" you can just connect via ssh using the -i option and the private key you setup.
(I do most of my work from the command line...) Should work great from Mac or PC (as he did with Putty). I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop.
Nahh i can't do anything. i installed Ubuntu 22.04 and i can't find ubuntu software center or any browser i tried installing maybe 4 browser using terminal but i always run into problems. The last one was with Microsoft edge browser, the last line an error appeared like can't locate file... I tried re installing ubuntu software center it says installed successful but i can't find it please help
Thanks everyone for the reply. RDP on mac worked. For some reason I couldn't connect via ssh (I was also using windows laptop as well - may be I need to create / copy the keys).
Really helpful, I had some problems with the ssh key but I fixed it eventually.
what did you do ?
@@queebyxfn I fixed my issue by updating to the latest PuTTY version
thanks for the video, also the capacity has increased since the video is released, it became crazy huge
not sure what you mean, nothing has changed? stil 24gb ram, 200gb hdd, 4cpu
Good to know!
Thanks for this video. amazing stuff. i created mine without facing any issues. but the machine is very slow, i don't know why the specs are fine and i was expecting some reasonable processing speed, i have to wait for a minute or more just to open a document. any fixes?
Have you found any fixes ?
this isn’t the intended use case, it’s meant to be used as a server, not a desktop pc
@@doge7831 That's makes sense now. Thanks
After trying every day for a month to create an instance 1,2,3,4 vcpu and getting "Out of Host Capacity" I can confirm this offer is as good as done!
Oracle's style. :D I will not waste one more second on this.
Excellent video for non techies. Does Ubuntu come preinstalled with a browser to download setup file for MT4?
Thank you so very much! I did this 2 months ago and it is still working! Question: Is there a way to get the audio working?
@Cloud Tech Brilliant video. Got everything up and running. However, is there any workaround for the laggy speed? I created a ticket (in Oracle Support) and got this response "In the /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini file, change crypt_level=high to crypt_level=None". Did that but nothing changed (maybe I did it wrong). Would you happen to know about this?
sorry, the vps increated ran fine. maybe reboot yours then see if problem still exists.
@Zukifli Latib did you solve the issue of the laggy speed? I'm facing the same issue
I also faced laggy speed. Did you found any solution?
I'm also facing laggy experience
I'm facing lag too
you should have mentioned that credit card is still required even if its free.
that would have saved me the trouble
thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
your welcome
Thank you for the video, i will have a look at it to. It sounds very interresting to me. I love to do things like this. Regards Henri from holland.
Hope you enjoy it!
Hi, great video
Is there a way to use the always free trier with a Windows Server VPS?
Thanks
Hi, Build the server like the video on this page. Next do this video so that you can use windows apps in Linux. ua-cam.com/video/jpnNFTUNWMw/v-deo.html
Not that I know of
thanks for the tutorial!! Just a important note: for developers or people who will want to use the instance to host a website / application its also necessary to add a Ingress rule for the ports 23-90 since the HTTP port is 80
can you explain in detail please?
@@azimshaikh9465 Sure: just repeat the same steps starting from: 5:48 - 6:10 but instead of typing "3389" you should type "23-90". After that you will be able to reach you virtual machine by typing the public Ip (the same one you used when connecting via remote desktop) in your browser. after that is just the standard L.A.M.P. configuration to deploy the website/ application
Great thank you for the reply✌, I again have a question, I guess it's a silly one but here goes, I wanted to know how secure is using L.A.M.P? I have an application which I want to deploy on my server for which I need php and mysql, but I also want to host a few php websites. So is using the LAMP a good idea?
@@dipereira0123 Great!! thank you for clarifying so much!! You are Awesome!!
@@dipereira0123 Other people would take the piss out of people asking questions, good stuff explaining things properly!
Thank you very much for your key......1000% work :)
thank you vey much bro... I'm really appreciate you.... ❤
Thanks for great walkthrough. The RDP happens to be extremely slow that its impossible to use. Any ideas on that? I had the same problem connecting to Ubuntu on AWS, yet have no idea whats going on
i am also facing slowness
before you connect with the RDP software on windows just put the resulution on de RDP client lower. I use 1920 x 1080 and it runs propper also you can select the netwerk type you want to use instead of let the system auto choose it. Just check the settings for best preformens.
Hm, I did it according to the video and the RDP speed is really good. I can connect with MS RemoteDesktopClient as well as with guacamole and I can even watch videos on youtube. It might be depended on where your instance is hosted. Honestly as you are experiencing the same issue with AWS I guess the issue is on your side, either your router or network settings or it is just your ISP limiting traffic. Maybe QoS in place?
In RDP before launching VDI just lower down the resolution.
Lowering the resolution helps, but still it is not comfortable, cant use for long term. I decided to go for non rdp usage, via command line
Hi Thanks for sharing this wonderful information. I have one problem. When I am trying to connect a VM using RDP, it does not connect. While at the same time the putty is connected.
I have this same problem.
@@DavidOnder Same, getting this issue since morning @Cloud Tech Can you please help in this?
Thanks a lot for this tutorial.
Funcionou muito bem o passo a passo hoje 09/05/2024. Obrigado Cloud Tech.
Hi, great video, but only issue now I have is that its so slow its pretty impossible to use, also I got 16core and 96gm memory with 200gb HDD on free forever is that normal?
The same.
I have that too but I don’t think if you use 16 cores it is still free
@@Drgamez716 How I do I get 16 cores?
@@investfoxy Well I think you would be able to use the 16 cores up to the 1 month and £250 pound free credit
Using the free credit you can have a 16 core computer with 255gb ram for a month
It's extremely slow. If I click on something, it'll take 5 minutes to open... Is this fixable?
Have you got any solution for that bro ?
Thank you very much. Good job
OMG THANKS YOU YOU HELPED ME
"completely free" yet you need a card to register and you receive a small payment
It’s to verify and to make people not abuse the system
They simply hold a $0.99 for some seconds and return it with no further charges
I don’t have a card to register , because it’s difficult to get it in my country. what should I do?
Any free hosting I have received required the same
That actually is free. Sorry but if you're looking for such a beefy trial, NO COMPANY, would ever give a free VPS for a longer period of time with no validation, at the very least they might even ask for document validations but yeah that stuff isn't easy at such scale, so credit card makes it easier.
Because it'd just be used for spam purposes, a VM online 24/7 with fast network access can be used to do more harm than you think
Asking for Credit card. I don't want to get loan. Not working method
You can't sign up without credit/debit card in Oracle, you will not be charged unless you upgrade from free tier to others
It charges about Rs 80 INR which gets refunded in 1-2 days
Free Tier account unless upgraded won't be charged until we use any resource limits above free usage
My Debit card not working
Thank you so much! Greatly explained.
@FizZ Please try to follow the tutorial step by step it will work for you.
I followed the step showing in the video now at the end of making oracle cloud tier ID it is asking me for paymend method verification :/
Careful with this. They require your credit card information for "verification" even if you only use the free offer. Then you must accept a checkbox "start my free trial". I couldn't find wether this trial would just end or turn into a paid account after the trial expires. Since they already have your credit card details at this time, you might not even notice.
In the end I had to also click on a button "Start my free trial" and it got stuck there. So I'm guessing if an offer sounds too good to be true, it usually is. I'll be carefully checking my credit card statements of the next few months.
Nice video. Very informative. Earned my sub
Did u get
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks so much for this? I got the whole thing setup but keep getting 'connection refused' errors when trying to connect via rdp. I installed tinyvnc, but can't connect with that either. I can SSH in just fine. Any thoughts?
Hello, I loved your video!
Thanks for sharing!
Can you tell me if it is possible to install blender and use it to render study projects?
Brilliant, a clear super helpful video, thank you, Now Sunxcibed 👍😊
@MaScAtUL Upgrade your Putty and try again.
Thank you sir, following this steps totally works, your explanation is on-point
Is this for 1 month?
@@zahin3905 The documentation says always free, I hvn't exhausted the 1 month trial period yet. But if the documentation is anything to go with, I expect the server to continue running since i created it on the always free resources as explained on the video
@@AlgoCoder thanks
@@AlgoCoder does it still work for u?
@@yashank_singh ooh yes, it's still online
Hello,
I use it as a headless ubuntu machine, remote in with SSH key as suggest it but for some commands I need the ubutu user password.
Is there a way to set a password for the user or how to use the SSH key instead?
Thank you.
In most regions it is virtually impossible to get available resource for the A1 4C/24G free instance. Only the x86 ones can be reliably created.
Tried to sign up but after it took money from my bank it failed the sign up and whenever i try again it errors out. Couple other people have had this issue.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Everything works fine, but there is too much delay with the image when I use the VM, do you know something about it?
Thanks for the great article, everything worked perfectly as explained. However, I'm facing slowness on the instance via RDP. Is there anything I am missing? in between, I created instance in US West (Phenix) region.
Not sure why YOUR xRDP is slow as mine wasn't, try installing the ***ARM version*** of NoMachine from : downloads.nomachine.com/ and see if using that is better. I am planning to do a video where i use that in ubuntu, but it's probably a couple of months off yet (i need to test it first)
It requires a payment method,but I dont have any card. What to do now?
Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to backup and restore whole image?
Thank you so much, it's possible to install wine for the windows application and how ? thx
Thanks for your tutorial, but my VM is very slow. I can't even watch UA-cam videos. Your machine seems to be much faster. I set the setup to 4 cpu and 24 gb of ram. Any tips?
Have you tried this ubuntu 22.04 and with the BUILT IN rdp? Many thanks
Excellent Bro,✅ ☝🏻😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you
Not interested in the RDP element, but can this be left running permanently, all month every month, or will that accrue charges?
Very good tutorial!
Great video thanks can you do another video installing apps like vs code pychar and other
You are best ;) Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I tried this and don't have any networking default settings. Which settings should I choose?
First, thanks a lot for the information. I selected the Montreal region and it doesn't look like I have options to select another datacenter / zone for that region. I guess I need to keep trying until they free more resources? For now I will play with the micro vm which I was able to create (1 GB, 1 CPU).
Can we create 2 instances of VM in case having 2 vcpus & 12gb of RAM while being staying in free tier stage?
I was trying to think of where I would use this power besides block-chain applications and that would be video editing while on the road, then uploading the finished video to my favorite channel.
Conncted to RDP but blank screen show no icon appears now what I do any solution from you
good this tutorial /video helped a lot. All working fine. But How shall i get a audio sound when i play audio in cloud pc via remote.?
Do you need visa or something card to register and get the free thingy?
Another question, i can run this 24/7 without paying for anything?
Where can I get that remote desktop connection application that you use? weird thing is, my laptop has it, but my desktop doesn't
Thanks for the video.
Thank you for this awesome video i have 2 questions. 1. what tool would we use in MacBook to remote into this vm? 2. Instead of 1 vm with 24 gm m, 4 cpus and 200 gb storage, can i create 2 vms with half of those resources, would that still be free ?
2.
yes that would be possible!
hey i need to asking a question if i closed my main window the ubuntu stop the working ?
I followed everything and was able to get to the ubuntu login screen, realized i didnt set the passcode so i did that through ssh but now when i connect through RDC i get a blank screen, tried rebooting server 2 times and the same issue occurs
Any ideas?
I don’t have a card to register , because it’s difficult to get it in my country. what should I do?
What is the max data transfer in/out per month ??
Hi, thank you for this very helpful video,
I have a question, when you run Ubuntu, there is Firefox missing and also a Livepatch missing? is there any solution?
Thank you
You need to install it i think
What are the actual specifications of the VM? Mainly the CPU and GPU.
This is a great video, thank you and thank you Oracle for a generous offer.
Is it possible to set this instance as a full blown web/mail/wordpress server with my own domain? Similar to any other VPS on the market?
a mail server probably not because you have to request a ptr through support which requires a payed account. But the rest, yeah probably.
There is a way to use realVNC with the instance? i tried installing but i couldnt.
Awesome. Thanks soo much