I am moderately surprised that this didn’t have anything to do with Trump or Elon Musk. I was pretty curious what activist organization Erik Uden ran. But, the punchline wasn’t that, and was in the Mastodon replies.

Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353

What a weird coincidence

Honestly it's so annoying we just can't natively crossposting from mastodon and we have to keep using screenshots.

ORACLE: One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison

It's the problem with their "always free" virtual machines. Use too much, and they delete it for abuse. Use just a little, and they delete it for inactivity.

Those aren't free because Oracle is benevolent, but simply because probably they had a contract with Ampere to purchase millions of those arm server CPUs and they have vacancy

They're "free" in the hope that they will catch a whale: someone gets used to their infrastructure with a test, then spin more paid virtual machines

If in a specific datacenter, suddenly a whale is asking more resources, the free ones are getting the cut

Not just oracle. Couple years ago Google nuked an Australian pension fund cloud environment with no way to restore. Just poof all data gone.

As someone who had that misfortune to work woth their products, this tracks just great. Honestly. I've used their Apex and SQL developer. Both of them are unintuitive to use, inconsistent, lacking features, and just a complete resource hogs in their own ways. Makes me wonder how they are still keeping themselves afloat, considering the abhorrent state and quality their products are.

This is exactly why you don't use anything from Oracle, especially free stuff like OCP. If you think you're not going to regret it eventually, you're fucking wrong.

a good reminder to back up your shit regardless of what service you're using.

Something about eggs in one basket.

My much brainier than me friend was telling me about the courses he was taking to apply to Oracle. I had to break it to him how far down they've fallen, and not to expect anything working for them. He's smart, but not in the right social channels like the Fediverse to see what the real people are saying.

Nice to know that they go above and beyond to uphold GDPR

Once had Optimum (the ISP) do this to a business I was working with. Just yeeted all their email accounts and their contents and all backups thereof one day. Declared it was because no user on the account was accessing their email via the webmail system so all the email was nuked for inactivity. IMAP and POP do not count, apparently.

Short version, do not use Optimum unless they are the only option, and if they are the only option seriously consider moving to fix that.

I'm not a fan of victim blaming but who the heck thought it was a good idea to use Oracle to begin with??!??

https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238

Google, meta, apple, they all will do the same. I had it with vercel and ebay. This is corporations abusing their power, no accountability.

Historically, the only thing Oracle ever made which was good was their database, and even that is only worth it beyond a certain size of dataset and number of simultaneous requests being served.

If one copy of all of your data is deleted, you should be able to recover it.

• Maintain three copies of your data: This includes the original data and at least two copies.
• Use two different types of media for storage: Store your data on two distinct forms of media to enhance redundancy.
• Keep at least one copy off-site: To ensure data safety, have one backup copy stored in an off-site location, separate from your primary data and on-site backups.

https://www.veeam.com/blog/321-backup-rule.html

Someone that was following best practices would have regularly made a copy of their data and stored it somewhere that doesn't depend on anything Oracle does, since I'd consider depending on Oracle to store all of your data to be storing all your data at one site.

On the one hand, sure, oracle rep could have handled it better

But on the other hand...

The TOS do say you are only eligible to sign up once

Now, on the not telling you the reason why the shutoff happened, it's totally logical. No company will let you know what was the TOS violation to help you or others to avoid future detection and commit fraud. Anyone on IT knows this.

Not saying the guy did it, but apparently Oracle believes they did. It's the same as Google. One simple fuck up on an add in adwords and your account is screwed for life. Could be for the most innocuous of things, like a flag raised by usage patterns, or going to the extremes, a possible compromised instance got nuked preemptively

In any case always remember that the resources occupied in a free instance may and will be freed up when needed without warning.

And if stuff is THAT IMPORTANT, always go on prem , with at least two different providers for cloud services and backup

Also, read the terms of service. It's not that hard