I've been using Linode for a few years (since SpiritOne got hijacked) for an always-on host. It's great. But I'm starting to play with building OpenWRT and need more disk space and CPU than I have at home right now. I'd love to fire up a powerful VM for when I'm working on it and not pay when I'm not -- but not lose the considerable time invested in setting up and downloading/building 20G of files.
Linode doesn't do this. Who does? My wish list: * Just raw Debian. I'm happy ssh-ing in, and don't want to learn a whole new way of interacting with a VM (which is what AWS requires in my casual experience) * Powerful VMs available but billed only when running * Free, or at least really cheap, to leave a configured VM in a saved-but-not-running state Thanks, --Eric -- My g-bike can trounce your e-bike! _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
