How to Create an Always Free Website on the Oracle Cloud

Learn how to create a website on the Oracle Cloud that costs you absolutely nothing because it's on the Always Free tier.

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[definite_d]

I've watched multiple videos from your channel now, and I gotta say, you're seriously underrated.

[CanDoSo_org]

Hi, Tony. Is this a better way to deploy a website than on github or netlify? Thanks.

[andrewmcc]

The payment verification step doesn't work at all for me. I have used the exact same details I use for AWS and it worked fine on there. Googling this told me this has been a problem for almost a year and, as far as I can tell, Oracle have not done anything about this. Their support for free tier is terrible and I can't find any fixes for this problem. I assume you wouldn't know of any way to fix this but if you or anyone else here knows a way or has an info on this, I would appreciate it.

[rufterloko]

Hi, Tony!

Regarding "All tenancies get the first 3, 000 OCPU hours and 18, 000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory."

This is how it works: Hours/resource = Hours in a month of a single resource.

3000 OPCU Hours / 04 OCPU = 750 hours of 01 OCPU per month
18000 GB Hours / 24 GB Ram = 750 hours of 01 GB ram per month

750 Hours / 24 Hours = 31 days and a quarter.

Therefore, within the limits of 04 OCPU / 24 GB Ram / 200 GB Storage configuration, you won't be charged. I've been using it for months.

With Ampere you can have up to 04 (not just two, like AMD) different servers with 1 OCPU / 6 Gb Ram / 50 Gb Storage.

The only problem is that with ARM there might be some packages missing. It would be great to have a tutorial with a functional and not shaddy Control Panel that works with ARM besides aaPanel.

[thisisreallyme]

Please consider doing more videos on OCI Free Tier. ((The official Oracle documentation is so bland and unimaginative, few tutorials useful with always-free eligible). So NOW that you have this VM running nginx, what always-free Eligible services would you connect to the nginx instance?

[ComplicatedButSimplified]

Dude you mentioned to go from http to https but it has created a lot lot of problems for me. A detailed video following this setup will be much helpful

[tobin]

I understand the free 200GB, but are there any max connection or traffic volume limits Oracle might enforce, once such a free web site might have to serve a lot of requests or data?

[AndreBird]

Very well done!
I created my free tier acc just now but they have a 1-click deploy option already, so even better!
Thank you anyway!

[kranthibheemanadam]

I followed all the steps as it is but i am getting this error ""403 Forbidden
nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)" (i am using subdomain) and couldnt able to find /var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock instead i had /run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock in the edit box after using sudo vim

Please help

[WayneHerschel]

can I set up google cloud or oracle cloud free trial with a an Ubuntu VM to run a low cost 24/7 streaming of my old videos to my YouTube channel. This is the next big thing for YouTube... do this and include additional good price for webhosting my website with the free trial offer and it will be gold.

[visualsbyrobinspeichermann]

Thank you! The 1GB instance was slow with some plugins installed for me. I went for the always free Ampere 12GB VM, now everything is working fast.

[drewreynolds]

Awesome video! One piece of advice I would add for beginners is that when you open port 80, consider also opening port 443 if you plan on utilizing a ssl certificate.

[simonecirelli]

Thank you for your video, it's really useful! I followed it step by step, but I still have a problem: I cannot create new pages with Wordpress and I can't even upload files using tools like FileZilla. I suspect it is a problem concerning permission, but I am not sure (I am quite a beginner). However, the permission for the html folder is "drwxr-xr-x" and the owner is www-data, shouldn't this be enough for having the necessary permissions?

[mohamedtadwala]

I have been trying for 5 days to this and I finally managed to get it done today. Which shows me that I should never ever give up and so shouldn't you.

[Lara-xuyc]

I can't get past the payment step, even though the small charge to verify my bank account works I get an error message and its driving me crazy

[willchu]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial. What's the easiest way to increase the volume size of the free Oracle VM?

[kendjinone]

Every time i rebopot the server i have to use the firewall command again is there any fix? sudo iptables -I INPUT 6 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Edit: all you have to do to fix this is :
sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent
sudo -i
sudo iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4
that's it

[matteoricci]

can you deploy a docker image in this server?

[andrisstanga]

I don't know if this is just a problem with the current latest WordPress...
I did everything in this tutorial religiously and came across 2 problems. The first I cured, the second has me stumped...
The first was that I could not upload Elementor because I kept getting errors that the file exceeded limits. This came on an nginx 403 page. I was able to eliminate this problem by editing both nginx and php configuration files and upping the limits I found within those. Relatively easy, but needed a web search to discover the files that needed editing.
Having done that, I went to change the way permalinks are shown using the custom category/postname that I have used on other site. Having done that, I went back to check site health and I was getting a REST API error. Not only that, but neither the block editor built in to Wordpres nor Elementor would work. Ouch! However, returning permalinks to the default removed the error after which both the block editor and Elementor worked fine. Weird. So... with this install do I have to be stuck with ugly permalinks?
PLEASE tell me there is a solution to this!!

[aitoolskit_ai]

@TonyTeachesTech I have been following you since 2 years. I am waiting your video from so long on the topic about "How to get oracle VM with 4CPU Arm processor server by making automatic api request after every couple of seconds" as oracle arm ampere vm is next to impossible to get nowadays by trying manual way in the free plan. Please make a detailed video. A video is already present of someone who wrote a reddit post but that guy has skipped steps in between so its difficult to understand. #TonyTeachesTech pls help me in this regard.