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[imdarkray]

I tried all my CCs and multiple email accounts to create some Free tiers. None of them work but the first one.
And now, suddenly I got an SMS that my ICICI Cc has been charged with 10 SGD.

 

[royalroy]

They have a solid fraud detection system. I had used my dad's details to create a second account. Somehow they detected me.

Don't worry, you'll be charged twice during the free trial period to verify if this is a real card. Everything will be refunded.

 

[Deleted member 14251]

Any guides to take snapshot of the instance? I've setup some softwares and running fine, but i continue to experiment.. so i wanted to have a backup of snapshot which is working fine.

 

[royalroy]

Go to your disk and there you can take a backup. You can relaunch a VM from that backup.

 

[Deleted member 14251]

^Where exactly the disk option is there? I can see storage menu, but not disk one. Can you give more details?

 

[royalroy]

Go to the instance page. Select boot volume, at bottom left. You may need to scroll down to see the options. Select the particular boot volume. Again scroll down, on the bottom left part, select boot volume backups. Create a backup. There is a clone option but I haven't understood the exact difference between a backup and a clone.

 

[imdarkray]

I have two free tier instances, one A1 flex, and another E2.1 Micro.
My A1 Flex instance is suddenly stopped today and now when I am trying to start it. I am getting the following error
"Unable to start instance: xxxxxxxx is disabled and will not accept any action requests. Please contact customer support to reenable"

 

[Deleted member 14251]

^ A1 instance will be terminated after free trial gets over. You need to recreate the same again.

 

[imdarkray]

Yes. just got the same response from their support team. will have to redo a lot of stuff.

 

[Navjot Singh]

This is idiocy. They should just let you keep it if you start paying?