A1 Instance disabled without warning

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My A1 instance got stopped and disabled without ANY warning whatsoever. My trial period ended several weeks ago, but I continued using it to do further tests before I actually think it's great to use as a paid account. Following their instructions, I terminated the instance, but can't create a new one!

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I've read the other posts from other people frustrated (understandably) that their Always Free A1 instance got stopped without any warning. This doesn't inspire confidence at all to actually put money in the account if that's how Oracle does things..

Anyway, they recommend terminating the instance, and recreating a new one. However, when I do that, I'm getting a "Service limit will be reached.