Oracle Cloud's Lifetime free services (2 VPS + more)

[varkey]

I wasn't aware of this, really cool. Just signed up, used my IndusInd card. They charged SGD 1 and was immediately reversed as well, for validation.

Selected Hyderabad region, hopefully the latency is better than Mumbai. Distance wise both are more or less same. (Mumbai is some 250 km more)

 

[igloo]

I think Mumbai will be best for most due to international landing station presence.
We lack local connectivity.

 

[Xyphoros]

Anybody managed to install wireguard in it? It doesn't seem to work

 

[varkey]

I already have a VM in AWS Mumbai, so wanted to try how Hyd is. Will launch a VM and test.

@lucifer What issues are you seeing exactly?

 

[Xyphoros]

@varkey I installed using a github script. It can't connect to internet.

 

[Xyphoros]

Okay found another script which is working.

 

[Rehan Kumar]

All ports except 22 are disabled by default, remember to enable them in the VCN firewall settings
Also ubuntu (at least) has firewall enabled through iptables, remember to remove/alter them by

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -F
iptables --flush

 

[amish]

@amish Apart from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Atlantic.net all of them offer 1 year free VPS/VM. That's 4 more years of free services. lol

I was thinking of same, i.e. to disable and switch to Google cloud for a year. But every year I would have to reconfigure the VM and also transfer some data. Now since Oracle cloud is lifetime free (hopefully they wont change policy), once configured, I can simply forget.

I wasn't aware of this, really cool. Just signed up, used my IndusInd card. They charged SGD 1 and was immediately reversed as well, for validation

I wasnt even charged for some unknown reason.

@Rehan Kumar - are you related to Oracle cloud?

 

[varkey]

Pings are definitely better to Oracle Hyderabad, compared to AWS Mumbai for me from BSNL. However, Oracle Cloud doesn't support IPv6 which is kind of a bummer

root@varkey:~# mtr -w 152.67.163.87
Start: 2020-08-26T13:09:37+0530
HOST: varkey                              Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 192.168.1.3                          0.0%    10    1.2   1.2   1.0   1.5   0.2
  2.|-- 117.201.0.1                          0.0%    10    2.6   3.2   2.5   3.8   0.4
  3.|-- static.ill.218.248.125.2/24.bsnl.in  0.0%    10    2.8   8.0   2.3  34.9  11.3
  4.|-- 218.248.255.6                       90.0%    10    3.9   3.9   3.9   3.9   0.0
  5.|-- 218.248.178.42                      20.0%    10   18.3  22.2  18.0  43.6   8.9
  6.|-- 218.100.48.141                       0.0%    10   16.2  17.0  15.6  18.1   0.8
  7.|-- 172.29.253.33                        0.0%    10   28.9  29.4  28.4  32.6   1.2
  8.|-- 140.91.228.2                         0.0%    10   26.3  26.6  26.1  27.3   0.4
  9.|-- 152.67.163.87                        0.0%    10   26.5  26.5  25.5  27.4   0.6
root@varkey:~#

 

[ishanjain28]

Thanks for the tip! Another location for my personal DoT/DoH servers. )