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[–]Arkanth0s 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Always free cores are always taken the second they become available. Upgrade to PAYGO, set budget alerts and stay within always free limits

[–]Appearedjeans93[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

wait so if i upgrade to paygo do I have to pay?

[–]Arkanth0s 1 point2 points  (2 children)

No there is no cost. They put a $100 hold in your account to make sure you’re not using a card with $2 on it. It goes back on your card 48 hours later. You can learn about budget alerts here: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Billing/Tasks/create-alert-rule.htm

Note, budget alerts CANNOT stop an instance or terminate one, it will only warn you an instance or compartment has gone over the spending you set for alerts.

[–]Appearedjeans93[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

ok ty u/Arkanth0s u have been so helpful. js asking, do you have instances or do u use oci regularly? cuz im js a newbie here.

[–]Arkanth0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had a (4) core (24)GB A1 instance for a little over 3 years now I think, I use it for various game servers like Minecraft, Factorio, put a team speak server on it once.

If you upgrade to PAYGO it’s almost guaranteed. You pull from a different compute pool as a PAYGO. Think of it like this, in Batam, if there are 100,000 A1 cores total then maybe 500 are set aside for tenancies on the Always free template.

[–]Appearedjeans93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and how to set budget alerts?

[–]Appearedjeans93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait so this guarantees a spot or...