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1. angula+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-17 22:45:24
All fine and well, but oracle will threaten to turn off your instance if you don’t maintain a reasonable average CPU usage on the free hosts, and will eventually do so abruptly.

This became enough of a hassle that I stopped using them.

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2. treesk+C2[view] [source] 2025-12-17 23:02:03
>>angula+(OP)
Do you mean if it’s idle, or if it’s maxed out? I’ve had a few relatively idle free-tier VMs with Oracle and I’ve not received any threats of shutoff over the last 3 years I’ve had them online.
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3. qingch+nj[view] [source] 2025-12-18 01:11:14
>>angula+(OP)
I assumed the same, but as long as you keep a credit card on file apparently they will let you idle it too. I went in and set my max budget at $1/mo and set alerts too, just in case.
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4. angula+q0a[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-21 14:33:30
>>treesk+C2
Idle - low usage Minecraft server was the issue for me
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