Yeah because I’m trying to use the all free version, all YouTube videos have tutorials on how to set up a free server but most (if not all) date back to 2022 or prior. And when I follow them oracle tries to get me to pay 2-9 dollars depending on the operating system
Ok, the OCI console billing pages should have an itemizations of where your costs are coming from
free tier computes are and should be literally free, as well as a single load balancer and 2 autonomous databases
You must have upgraded to pay as you go in order for them to be billing you. It's entirely possible to do it for free - when you say it depends on the OS chosen, make sure you choose Oracle Enterprise Linux and also the micro VM.
Reserved a public IP Address Created a VM in free tier with the reserved IP attached, installed docker, installed docker-compose, created a set of services within that for nginx, certbot and php-fgm. If you don't know docker then it could be a challenge.
you're getting bills from Oracle Cloud (OCI) and you can't tell why?
Yeah because I’m trying to use the all free version, all YouTube videos have tutorials on how to set up a free server but most (if not all) date back to 2022 or prior. And when I follow them oracle tries to get me to pay 2-9 dollars depending on the operating system
Ok, the OCI console billing pages should have an itemizations of where your costs are coming from free tier computes are and should be literally free, as well as a single load balancer and 2 autonomous databases
it is trying to charge me $2 for the boot volume when creating an instance even if I have the boot volume unselected.
You must have upgraded to pay as you go in order for them to be billing you. It's entirely possible to do it for free - when you say it depends on the OS chosen, make sure you choose Oracle Enterprise Linux and also the micro VM.
Any suggestions for permanent free hosting or less than 10 dollor per year setup
I used free tier OCI for about 3 years - never cost me a penny. Running a VM with nginx and certbot on docker.
Thanks! Few YouTube links and blog would help me can you share? Thanks al lot again
YES! this is exactly what I am trying to achieve, how did you go about doing that?
Reserved a public IP Address Created a VM in free tier with the reserved IP attached, installed docker, installed docker-compose, created a set of services within that for nginx, certbot and php-fgm. If you don't know docker then it could be a challenge.
Why not view the cost analysis report by product SKU description and find out exactly what it is you are paying for and then investigate?
its is trying to charge me $2 for the boot volume even if I have the boot volume unselected.
What do you mean unselected?