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Oracle is reducing their free tier quota from 15th june (docs.oracle.com)
6 points by sairam_h 6 days ago
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sairam_h 6 days ago
So I was shocked after seeing a reddit thread related to this here - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u4wqnj/psa_ora...

If i didn't see this, I would have never known this fact. I had a chat with support and they mentioned that it is indeed the case.

I'm not blaming oracle for reducing the quota, I know they have been very generous on their free tier but It would have been nice if they had atleast sent a email about this/

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sairam_h 6 days ago
I'm going to try my luck and see if the grandfathered instances don't charged and this change is only for the new instance.
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ndsipa_pomu 6 days ago
I hope that's the case, though I've reduced my instances down. I had the resources split into four VMs, so I just deleted two of them as I only really use one anyway.

> I'm not blaming oracle for reducing the quota, I know they have been very generous on their free tier but It would have been nice if they had atleast sent a email about this

I do blame them as "always free" should mean something and if there's an existential reason to change their offering, then communication should be the very least of their efforts. They should have communicated it, then provided a grace period with a warning of what the charges would be, then finally make the change. Currently, I don't think they've even updated their billing/usage pages.

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sairam_h 1 day ago
So i still had the instances to see if i will be billed. but so far I they didn't. I guess those changes are for only the new users and not the old. or they might have seen the reaction of the users and decided to back off.
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sairam_h 6 days ago
Yeah, usually in their support chat i would usually be let in but now i had a queue with almost 50 people. I assume everyone wants to get clarification on this.

They might have decided to try their luck and see how many people will fall victim to their scummy tactics of not informing the users.

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ameon 6 days ago
reminds me of this quote "There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now."
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ndsipa_pomu 6 days ago
I posted this yesterday, hoping to get the word out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515718

I think there's going to be a lot of disgruntled victims tomorrow, or when the bills come due.

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sairam_h 6 days ago
Oh, I didn't see your post here before! and thought i would help get the news reach more people as I don't think many people would be hanging out on reddit.
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ndsipa_pomu 6 days ago
The more posts about this, the better in my view. I hope the info gets to the front page so Oracle don't get to defraud so many people.
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sairam_h 6 days ago
Yeah, I will probably go and post on r/webdev subreddit so more devs will get this news.

Edit: yeah i couldn't because i had low karma on reddit. if someone can they should do it.

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sva_ 5 days ago
A lot more people will probably know about it tomorrow, when their billing alert goes off (if it even does.)
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sairam_h 6 days ago
tbh they should have just sent out the mail, instead of doing this silently..
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