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Re:Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers contain... by elashri on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:40PM (#42693312)
> The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again.

People are automating the process of requesting new arm instances on free tier [1]. You would find it near impossible to compete without playing same game

[1] https://github.com/mohankumarpaluru/oracle-freetier-instance...

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Re:Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers contain... by 7thpower on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:39PM (#42693706)
Well, I know what I’m doing tomorrow when I get up.
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Re:Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers contain... by hrrsn on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:28PM (#42703380)
I had the same thing happen to me. I tried running a script for a month without luck (Sydney region). What did work was adding a credit card to upgrade to a paid account - no issues launching an instance, and it's still covered under the free tier.
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