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This seems too good to be true, but it's working great for me!

With no credit card, I got an instance with 3 GB RAM running in less than 60 seconds. It costs $0.002 per hour.

One glitch: Both the UI and the API say there are 2 instances running, but they both have the same IP address and port. If there really are 2 instances, how do I ssh to the second one?

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That sounds like a bug! Just sent you email : )

Another possible bug is that the UI reports 1.56 core-hours used, but my single-core instance has only been running 24 minutes.

Ok!, the two instances you were seeing were duplicate listings of the same instance. That bug was introduced a few days ago by some database optimizations, and is now fixed! Thanks for reporting it.

The 1.56 core-hours is mostly from inst_KGN6tZdFgoeL2C9KPKBsNA which has four physical cpus and has been running for almost an hour at this point.

Thanks so much for trying this out!!!

It shouldn't matter how many physical CPUs there are, I only care how many my VM can use and how fast each one is.

If `cat /proc/cpuinfo` or `top` only shows one CPU, I wouldn't expect to be charged for 4 of them.

You are of course absolutely right! There was a bug (now fixed) that was causing only one cpu to show up in the VMs. All instances started after now should have the proper number of cpus visible.

(Note, the number of cpus might be higher than the number of physical cpus if the host cpu supports hyperthreading.)

I've got another one for you :)

The Add Credit Card link is pointing here:

http://localhost:8000/compute/change_card

How embarrassing (but fixed now). That was introduced when I added the ability to boot five instances without a credit card. Thanks for letting me know!

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