Amazing Free VPS (4CPU 24GB Ram) Oracle Quick Setup Tutorial

[@alejandrovelasquez247]

I watched the video because Oracle and free in the same sentence is like seeing a Unicorn

[@IdeaSpot]

😅

[@ramakrishnamishra8179]

Me too

[@varadrane7]

Two Unicorns

[@jorgewemyss3994]

As far as a credit card is required, is not free for me

[@TiagoJoaoSilva]

Zdravko Dimov That's a lame horse

[@ElvisBaketa]

Incredibly, in a few hours the server was set up, the domain was registered and the page was set up. Great tutorial

[@IdeaSpot]

Wow nice work 🙌

[@unflavoured]

made my personal semi-static webpage in flask. been looking for a free way to host it until i can afford OVH again. this works great

[@danielcordner2039]

Hi Alex. I greatly appreciated this tutorial. If I could have done more likes I would. I'm in the process of reestablishing my wife's art website after having to shut it down. This is a great birthday gift for her. Would be taking advantage of this free tier service from Oracle. Thanks for this.

[@IdeaSpot]

wow that's great! nice work & happy birthday 😉

[@persioberberian1716]

When they shut down your server in like 1 month, asking to contact support (which you have to pay for), just delete the machine instance without deleting the storage then recreate another instance attaching the old instance. Done it shouldn't happen anymore 😉

[@mozmatik]

A lot has changed @ Oracle. It would be great if you could update this video. Thank you for your very helpful videos and efforts.

[@StevenNorth]

Was thinking about experimenting with a VPS and boom boom pow... KZbin reads my mind! Thanks. It's up and running and working sweet.

[@mianomar]

Great video. I just followed along and had no problems. Had signed up for the Oracle free tier some time ago, your video inspired me to revisit it. Thank you!

[@IdeaSpot]

Nice work 👍 thanks for watching!

[@HerrBlauzahn]

When I registered, the free tier was still at 100GB block storage and 2 VMs with 2GB of RAM each. I will definitely try out the ARM server soon!

[@IdeaSpot]

For sure 👍

[@mouravocal]

I was looking for something like this to start deploying my personal projects, thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil!

[@lachlanblack3712]

Pretty cool, thanks Alex. I'm still going to use paid hosting but for anyone wanting to use a free option, what more could you ask for?

[@IdeaSpot]

Me too, but it’s still nice to have for experimenting and trying out different stuff, personal projects etc

[@vsbofficial3098]

After 30 days I've lost my instance 4gbCPU and 24 gb RAM .. fuck.. I've lost all that settings and files .. 😭😭😭😭

[@sanjayaus]

@@vsbofficial3098 What happened ??? so is it not free or lifetime???

[@gabrielkasonde367]

​@@vsbofficial3098 ain't it a "free always" tier?

[@itsyaboivoid]

@@vsbofficial3098 ur tenacy should be downgraded to a alwys-free account, create a new vm with the same specs and boost disk.

[@petaffection1699]

Great tutorial! Thank you. I am suprised to see that AApanel works with this oracle image. I've been using aapanel 7.x Chinese version with CentOS 7(same Apache, SQL, php) for several years, quite stable, but not sure this aapanel 6.x with oracle, hopefully also stable. From aapanel, the compatibility differs, Centos7.x > Debian10 > Ubuntu 20.04 > Cenots8.x > Ubuntu 18.04 > other OS.

[@lilith1504]

What would you use after centos become upper stream?

[@honestyohue8587]

Pls I want to ask if oracel will not shut it down later and ask you to pay for it later.

[@shaiganofficial]

If domain name and SSL settings do not appear on aapanel, then turn on developer settings. Great tutorial, helped me a lot! Thanks man !

[@kamaltufekcic4618]

I honestly don't even know if you mentioned this in the video, I haven't watched it past the 2 minute mark, but it's extremely important. After your trial period expires, your VM WILL BE DISABLED! You can save the data on it after it's disabled, but it WILL BE DISABLED! After it gets disabled you need to recreate it using the image file you saved and only then will it remain as is indefinitely

[@vsbofficial3098]

After 30 days I've lost my instance 4gbCPU and 24 gb RAM ..disabled... unreachable... fuck.. I've lost all that settings and files .. 😭😭😭😭

[@ImranShaikh-kt7ey]

@@vsbofficial3098 Hey I got this error "Error processing transaction" any idea how to soilve this ?

[@garcope7858]

Great Tutorial, you have new sub here for life, and coffee will be sent on soon!!!! Very clear and concise explanations on the few vids/tuts i have watched so far.... Thank again!! 👍👍

[@geost77]

You can use more than 47GB disk space you get by default ... In your video you forgot to mention that. When create instance check that "Specify a custom boot volume size" checkbox and there you can change default 47GB to up to 200GB for free. Or add later 150GB storage block volume (to already existing 47GB boot volume) and attach it. Expanding boot volume to 200GB may be a bit tricky actually, as you need to install and run oci-utils ... Attaching as separate storage volume is a bit easier, but still have it's tricks. So you may show that in this or separate video, as it will help, if people need more space that default 47GB (actually I think about 25GB free, others taken by OS and etc). There is also Always free older AMD EPYC option at last section, after Ampere - "Specialty and previous generation" - VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro, but it is just 1 core and 1GB RAM (still up to 200GB disk). Can run two of them for free. But they are way slower than Ampere and way less RAM obviously. I've tested and did many benchmarks for both, even comparing 1 vs one core and etc ... AMD core is very limited and more than twice weaker cap set there than 1 Ampere core. So with 4 Ampere cores you get about 10 times more performance. Yet, if you need AMD core - that is option, as Ampere is ARM and you are limited to Oracle Linux, no CentOs and others. Also as ARM you have other hardware/software limitations and if need x86 - you can run two AMD "Specialty and previous generation" machines (1c / 1GB each) forever free. And split that total 200GB disk space as you want.

[@hime-kamisama]

Ampere does have CentOs, and I am doing Ubuntu on it right now

[@SumonJena]

I checked to Specify a custom boot volume size and changed the volume to 200Gb but still, it's showing the default volume in my aapanel.

[@geost77]

@@SumonJena yes, it was tricky to make it work. I did use some online guide, but can't remember

[@touffiksteven]

@@geost77 How many instances can you create after trial end ?

[@geost77]

@@touffiksteven max 4. As free you have 4 Ampere cores and 200GB disk space. So that is the limiting factor. As you can't have less than a core, you can have 4 instances with 1 core and 50GB (min disk space is 50GB) each. Or have other combinations of cores and disk space, but 4 is max.

[@92soldier]

just came across your channel thanks for showing me this! Been wanting to start my own company and was looking into VPS

[@maka6000]

Reminder to do backups, especially on always free instances.

[@IdeaSpot]

good tip!

[@manuvarghese2689]

Is it possible to do automated daily back ups on always free instance ? If yes, how to enable it ?

[@Rahulkwh]

Literally you showed that how to host our personal website for free all we need is a domain and we xan host our site you are awesome bro😁😁😁😁

[@IdeaSpot]

thanks Rahul 👍

[@josepaulooliveirafilho746]

Incredible video. Learned soo much! Thanks, man!

[@IdeaSpot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Fantas1TV]

José

[@maewing3494]

Brasil

[@masterneme]

Perfect timing, I was evaluating different free services and was ready to settle with Heroku but this is SO much better! I only want to experiment but I'm curious, what happens if you exceed the free tier maximum values, do you just get charged or is the service interrupted like with IBM?

[@randomdude7229]

Yep, wondering if these generous free tier is a kind of bait to catch extra billing hehe

[@fmelodb]

When 30-day period or the $300 credits ends, your services get interrupted, but the elegible free tier services remain forever. You are not able to exceed the maximum always free tier values, unless you "upgrade" to a paid account.

[@R.Daneel]

@@fmelodb Nice.

[@HullioGQ]

I don't think you can really exceed the free tier maximums unless you're a serious enterprise or are running some illegal processes there. I have 35 small business websites on another VPS provider and have never exceeded 10TB bandwidth per month.

[@masterneme]

@@HullioGQ That's good to know, thanks.

[@peterwilliams5522]

Alex this is really amazing thanks for the thorough review

[@IdeaSpot]

Glad you liked it! was an interesting one for me to make

[@wizdude]

TIL about the Ampere cores on the Oracle free tier. I didn’t know this was available. Now I need to go and play :-) Thanks for the video.

[@Wahinies]

They are constantly "out of capacity" though :(

[@Lyriks_]

Great job mate! This is actual a wonderful money saving tip for busy webdevelopper

[@IdeaSpot]

wish i had it when I was younger!

[@PPGELUNEMAT]

Excellent Tutorial. Could you do a tutorial on how to install an android system in oracle cloud virt-manager?

[@stecygravel]

IMPORTANT: choose the right region from the start because you cannot change afterwards. The "ALWAYS FREE" shapes are only available in a few regions.

[@IdeaSpot]

good tip - im guessing the north America ones probably have the most capacity

[@announcer7400]

My preference would be Switzerland ngl

[@joey.9.5]

@@announcer7400 Yeah i get pretty good latency on Switzerland server

[@pipopu]

So that’s why I can’t do anything I chose sweden (I’m in Finland so it’s the closest) I guess they have no free servers there.

[@GemstoneNaturals]

I tried but no success

[@SpencerTaylorOnline]

I feel like my brain is leveling up to a new level of WP understanding! Thank you for a great tutorial.

[@IdeaSpot]

Happy to help!

[@walgazeh8732]

Thank you, bless youtube algorithm (and you) for showing this precious info

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks for watching 🙏

[@HugoASB]

It would be nice for you to do a video about the limits of Oracle Free Tier and how long will it last.

[@IdeaSpot]

The method here is free forever

[@konutek7716]

Only 4CPUs and 24GB are free for more than 30 days Thanks for the news. I like to most the part of not being suddenly put under the paid program. I hope to develop some sort of ML app with it

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks Konutech

[@kamaltufekcic4618]

You get that + 2x 1GB/1C micro instances as part of the always free program, and it's definitely free for more than 30 days, but there is a catch after your free trial, see my other comment for that(it's still free, you just need to recreate your VM)

[@tiendatnguyen6758]

Love it, I'll "cloud" my website pretty soon. Thanks

[@bradburyrobinson]

I spend more time tinkering around with servers and panels than I do actually creating anything meaningful on the installs. 😆 I might have to turn off notifications for your videos for a while!

[@IdeaSpot]

I know the feeling right... maybe just change career to backend dev?

[@bradburyrobinson]

@@IdeaSpot - Once it became an actual job I'd then go looking for something else to mess with. 😂

[@gregorysun6204]

Very helpful and professional video, also introduce so wonderful and Always Free tier VPS. Thanks a lot. May i ask one question about block storage? There is "Local disk: block storage only" in VPS Shape, how big size about this block storage? Thanks again.

[@gregorysun6204]

200G

[@prabhup9465]

Really useful content. I tried with WSL instead Putty, works well.

[@IdeaSpot]

Good tip!

[@dylantaylor490]

Going to try this out, 4 CPU, 24GB is extremely generous.

[@ViktorFerenczi]

It is just marketing. Take attention to the overall service quality (UI, support, reliability) compared to other providers.

[@سعيدأمير-و7ق]

I am still trying to figure out what 4 processors means... is it i3 . i7 . i9 ... what gen? And are they really giving 24 gb of ram for free? This can actually host any medium size website maybe with 50+ K users. Is there a catch?

[@AmineBenjelloun777]

Hi, great video, thanks a lot for showing all that. Unfortunately, during the registration process we are asked to add a payment method and the prepaid cards are not accepted. Did you get to input your credit or debit card in the registration process ?

[@quickfever]

same

[@IdeaSpot]

Credit or debit card will work but not prepaid usually

[@yasenvladimirov]

I have registered with my revolut card, they charge 1 USD to confirm identity

[@gideonstowell3070]

Same issue here. But I used a Discover Credit card and never could get it to work, tried 3 times. Eventually had to use a Visa debit and it worked.

[@TheoParis]

i used a wells fargo card and they didnt even accept it :(

[@justinanthony8858]

Thanks for this, great video, Is there a bandwidth limit and did you test upload and/or download speeds? Thanks

[@alamm1714]

Great helpful video. Certainly, I will try. Thank you, mate! How to setup subdomain and addon domain?

[@technickr]

Would you do Rustdesk Remote Desktop Server on an Oracle Cloud?

[@ericcartman6096]

You can also use Ubuntu os rather than Oracle Linux.

[@rohitsumbrui3374]

Can I use kali Linux and is it will be free forever or a year

[@muneebbug]

Oracle is so underated as always ♥

[@permanar_]

Hey, I really appreciate this content so much! It's really awesome. Anyway, can we run NodeJs server on this vps? I mean by using the aapanel. And could you probably help us to make a tutorial for using the AWS free tier as well especially for setting up a Node.js based server? (maybe like Next.js SSR website or Nest.js - Typescript Backend Framework) Because its just so confusing for me! Thank you so much man!!

[@mosti72]

You can run anything as long as it supports ARM architecture (aarch64)

[@nigelnyakudya2262]

Nice tutorial thank you. just wondering which screen recording software are you using?

[@IdeaSpot]

Obs

[@SupahNin10dohp]

That ding in the beginning made me think this was going to be super easy and barely an inconvenience....it was not

[@IdeaSpot]

😂😂

[@sundayamizo]

Thanks for this video. I have one doubt - I set up the same config as you did on the video, but with a boot volume of 200GB (auto-adjusted to 192GB). But, my AAPanel is showing the size of the root directory (/) as 36GB and /var/oled size as 10GB. Isn't the boot volume size the total storage space I will get?

[@ArjunSehgalDigital]

Wait for a few hours. It will auto adjust to the max accessable memory. Same happened to me yesterday.

[@sundayamizo]

@@ArjunSehgalDigital Thanks for the info.

[@sundayamizo]

@@ArjunSehgalDigital Almost 24hours has passed and I still did not see the update. Can you tell me how much time it takes for you? or Is there anything you do to update?

[@ArjunSehgalDigital]

@@sundayamizo For me it happened in 1-2 hours only. I don't know why isn't it happening for you.

[@healthexpertpak3252]

hello sir awesome training. i saw all your tutorials about oracle. but i am facing error i am using domain service which dont provide me feature to add dns in domain. how could i complete this process with nameserver please reply

[@22manohar08]

I don't recommend oracle cloud, you will loose all your data in case you store or do anything. I had a free account on it, and after the free trial expired, I dint upgrade it, They terminated/suspended my account. When I contact an agent, they say that system terminated my account and they cant do anything. They didn't even provide any reason for termination. Note I didn't use the 200 gb storage to store any file/ abuse the compute. More over I have only used it to experiment on creating an instance, setting up network and other types of learning.

[@llvn11]

did you find any alternatives? same thing happened to me

[@LiegeMaximo]

got anything guys?

[@22manohar08]

Nope. Nothing yet, i didn't find a good alternative.

[@LiegeMaximo]

@@22manohar08 :(

[@crumpfyllc5571]

@@llvn11 Amazon Lighsail

[@JA_BRE]

Instead of 4 cores and 16GB of RAM, I am able to select 16 cores and 96GB. Free plan - Frankfurt Server!

[@IdeaSpot]

😱😱😱😱

[@JA_BRE]

@@IdeaSpot Thank you for this awesome video! With 16CPU and 96GB RAM, a website is able to handle a decent amount of traffic, right?

[@IdeaSpot]

Yeah easily

[@adx74]

Work too lmao

[@The_TermiGator]

When you signed up, you started the free trial. When the free trial credits expire in 30 days, you'll be limited to the Always-free eligible configuration unless you upgrade your account.

[@EstebanFrancou]

It'd awesome to have a tutorial about setting up nextcloud on this server :) Thanks a lot.

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes for sure 🔥🔥

[@mikecheongx]

hey thanks so much for this video! i got an error message when i tried to select shape. "Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain pHdc:AP-SINGAPORE-1-AD-1. If you specified a fault domain, try creating the instance without specifying a fault domain. If that doesn’t work, please try again later. Learn more about host capacity." is this normal or do i have to wait it out? or just create one and later recreate again? or is it a one time thing? Sorry I'm so new and just wanted to check

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes that's normal, I actually got that error back in my earlier "Free VPS" video - you can try reducing the RAM and see if it works? Otherwise, try the AMD micro option

[@mikecheongx]

@@IdeaSpot ah thanks so much! i'll give that a try

[@bolero9932]

Me too. Try to register new account with other region

[@bolero9932]

@@IdeaSpot in Singapore, really out of resources, even 1gb ram

[@zubershaikh8752]

me too facing same issue :/

[@ahmedd.masoud6809]

Thanks a lot.. That's brilliant.. Can it be used to install Ubuntu desktop or maybe Windows server on it and use it as RDP ??

[@IdeaSpot]

Should be possible ✅

[@kamaltufekcic4618]

you can, they even have guides for both linux and windows

[@EsoRimerCz]

Be careful with this free tier guys. It gets deleted without warning time to time (even if I used it every day!).

[@Arewapro]

Please create a video on how to install Mt4 On it

[@blueberryacc]

thanks for the tutorial and especially for the aapanel reference. I've never heard about it before and it looks exactly like the tool I need

[@_Trakman]

Thanks 👍🏻 Idea for next video: could you do a setup tutorial for a free web forum, using free Oracle server.

[@markw496]

Also thanks for telling us this. I signed up and if the service works well I would not mind paying them for additional services considering I might need to scale eventually.

[@OliTheRepairDude]

Hope you enjoy

[@mbparvezme]

Great resource. Just looking for something like this. Just one question, how to use NodeJs on this server?

[@Marvv4n]

Thank you so much man !! actually Im really grateful i clicked your videooo

[@dustyyt6095]

Thanks. Is it better than hostinger?

[@stephensaidu]

Brilliant video! Thank you

[@edinsonriveraaedo292]

thanks for the amazing explanation. Great Video!!!

[@markw496]

GUYS this might help but for some reason it would deny my credit cards from my personal account even though I have like 800 + credit score and high credit. However, I tried using my business account credit card and it worked. Maybe its for businesses or they have some way of checking you're a business. So use a business credit card probably more likely to pass the last step.

[@zeecot]

I have left only 5 days left of trail and unable to create 4 cpu with 24 gb. it ends always with out of capacity please help me

[@CrazyD4RKiller1]

Can’t believe y’all are falling for this

[@IdeaSpot]

Falling for what? Ive been using this since February, it’s fine 😅

[@clixt984]

Thanks for this! Though I messed up the first time (I generated keys using Oracle's rather than putty's) so I deleted my first instance and started over because it was asking for a root password.

[@joytan3829]

I followed your tutorial, but after the aapanel is installed, my putty login with ssh key no longer works

[@ArturFreitas]

I got it! Many thanks for this nice tip!

[@alexio6205]

Thanks Great tutorial! For updates and security i need to run the yum update command to update linux and also update aapanel?

[@newybocktor]

Thank you so much, that was so helpful. 👍

[@investfoxy]

They deleted the free tier instance and my website data with it.

[@jonaspudas9988]

Did you do anything about this? Did you contact Oracle?

[@IannisSpiropoulos]

Hi! Thanks for the awesome tutorial. One question: I have installed docker and nginxproxymanager. I observe that the instance "sleeps" and my site is not accessible until I ssh back to the instance. Is that capacity related? Is there some setting I 've missed?

[@x_max4064]

Hello, can you tell us what are the best additions we install on this server so that the site works quickly and performs?

[@edsonmanuelmartinezcarriza9133]

Good job

[@saurabhparnami1150]

Wonderful work here Man. Thanks for making this video. :) I have one query, In this free tier, Can we install more than 1 wordpress site? Let's say i have two or three blogs. with different domain.

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes that’s easy, just repeat the ‘add website’ step In aapanel - this should be able to handle quite a few sites actually

[@saurabhparnami1150]

@@IdeaSpot Thanks you so much for quick reply.

[@denuwanlahiru6310]

Really thank you so much Alex for this video

[@x_max4064]

First: Thank you, my friend, for this beautiful explanation. Second: I linked my site after completing your explanation with Cloudflare, and I changed the nameservers, and then I can’t access aapanel. Should I add my own aapanel A record? one more time

[@henrymendeez]

Thanks for sharing this tutorial! Wanted to ask you, what is the difference between AMD and ARM CPU? Will the AMD perform faster than ARM?

[@IdeaSpot]

Arm is better here, we only get 1/8th of an ocpu for amd but we get 4 ocpu for arm - but a lot of software doesn’t work on arm, this aapanel works and webinoly worked but my other favourites (wordops and cyberpanel didn’t work on arm)

[@wisecracknews]

Brilliant overview, thanks!

[@MarijnRoeleveld]

Is the ARM based always for free without any time limit? I see that the AMD version is also always free

[@donisetiawan4224]

thanks bro for sharing this, I'm looking forward to another cool video from you🙂

[@劉呈碩]

Awesome! Nice Tutorial

[@omarle727]

Thank you so much! Very helpful tutorial.

[@Kamiyazdani]

Awesome video tutorial and great work. Really enjoyed it and learned a lot.

[@IdeaSpot]

Glad it was helpful!

[@diegkol]

Great video. How about making a video on setting up Nextcloud on this free service. Please!!!!!

[@IdeaSpot]

oh I actually tried this one, its a good way to use these free vps - i think i did it like this: snapcraft.io/install/nextcloud/ubuntu

[@inpuneet]

Much better then AWS UI

[@IdeaSpot]

Neither are very easy.... Vultr & Linode are my favourites tbh

[@arch01gaming99]

this is should be game changing , thanks for sharing 👍

[@shyamn6683]

Excellent Video, Very useful for learning and there is not command based working.

[@khalidelgazzar]

Superb tutorial. Thank you 😊

[@IdeaSpot]

thanks, glad to help!

[@OfficialMikeJ]

@IdeaSpot at 5:07 in your video you said that the "Provisioning can take a couple hours". I have had it take upwards of a few minutes to half an hour at the most. Just wanted to point that out to anyone else that is thinking of doing this. FYI. I also guess it depends on the region your from and the ping to the servers and so on can also take into account but since I'm from North America/Canada it didn't take that long at all.

[@IdeaSpot]

Try moving to Australia 😞

[@OfficialMikeJ]

@@IdeaSpot there's a Bug or something is wrong with apache it won't update it gets stuck in the "updating" cycle. I Noticed it today going to try the NGINX setup instead to see if it makes and difference.

[@asdrubale123456789]

Nice and clear sir! Thank you

[@shyamn7998]

great server was setup and website working. I want to use set reverse proxy for my other web site in the second free instance.

[@frikkiekruger6322]

Thanks for an Amazing video. Can we use this without hosting a website? I just need to run CapCut video editor(USA). Obviously with Chrome installed. Will this work? And do you have a video about something similar? Thanks :)

[@chipmoru]

Thank you so much for a great tutorial 🍻😊👍 !

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@rihaanmalik424]

Hi, can you please make a video on how to setup a litespeed server?

[@rahulchaudhary9931]

Hello Alex, thanks for such an amazing video. Everything worked perfect as per video. My question is, my website is not getting open when i type the url with www. Without www it opens and works great. Wait for the reply. Thanks.

[@QuieroTVec]

Hello, I have followed this tutorial step by step and I have succeeded but now I would like to configure an email with the same domain, can you help me please

[@IdeaSpot]

Sure, check the QnA video I made recently

[@pixa2788]

Fantastic but it's possible to install an app in PHP ? disponibility is good ?

[@cobollatin]

I was stick with azure but it looks really good for a free tier, gonna give it a try.

[@IdeaSpot]

Yes worth a shot!

[@deanhooper1234]

Awesome, thanks!

[@epiccricketarena]

Sir, 6:12 -> I lost my connection. How should i get those details?

[@bicavalgyalvesdesousa2526]

Hi, thanks for this comprehensive tutorial. How do I make my website to start with www