How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that’s pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn’t show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).
I don’t think they care about the fine details. The just drag a slider and it tells them it would kick out this many free instances, and someone says “ok let’s go with that”.
At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)
This also helps with scoring an A1 instance in the first place. Took several days to get my first one (using the script). And then when I wanted to nuke that one to recreate it I instantly hit the “out of capacity” message again.
Switched to a PAYG account and instantly got a new instance. Still never pay a dime.
You can get free offers from most places. If you juggle accounts and don’t do a ton, you can use AWS for free perpetually without dealing with this odd idle fandango.
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How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that’s pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn’t show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).
I don’t think they care about the fine details. The just drag a slider and it tells them it would kick out this many free instances, and someone says “ok let’s go with that”.
I don’t know, wouldn’t the Hypervisor be able to track resources usage by itself without anything else?
At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)
Switch to a PAYG account. Continue to use Always Free resources. Still pay nothing. And don’t get your account yoinked for underutilization anymore.
That’s worked for me so far, for almost a year now. (knock on wood)
This also helps with scoring an A1 instance in the first place. Took several days to get my first one (using the script). And then when I wanted to nuke that one to recreate it I instantly hit the “out of capacity” message again.
Switched to a PAYG account and instantly got a new instance. Still never pay a dime.
Wait, so I understood it on the opposite way? They kick you out if you don’t use enough free resources?
So I’m SUPPOSED to run a miner to keep mine from being overly idle??
i mean… I don’t get decent hash rates but it’s better than nothing. p2pool eventually pays out.
Plus seed some torrents to cover network requirements.
Sounds like you need some more hobbies to throw at it. :-)
You could always inflate the numbers by giving it artificial load but I imagine that breaks a ToS somewhere.
You could switch to a company that isn’t openly hostile to its customers.
I think a good question for newcool1230@lemm.ee is why Oracle. If they don’t have a reason to be using it, this is a great suggestion.
I’ve tried a few others but Oracle was the only one that kinda worked for me. I’m open to switching to other providers if you have any suggestions. @SheeEttin@lemmy.world @thesmokingman@programming.dev
What about Oracle made it work for you over others? Have you looked at the minors like Linode or DigitalOcean?
Difficult to beat a free offer
You can get free offers from most places. If you juggle accounts and don’t do a ton, you can use AWS for free perpetually without dealing with this odd idle fandango.