what has your experience with AWS been? for me, the initial setup is rather confusing, but after that I just ssh in like normal. and stopping/starting an instance is fairly painless, and they only charge you for storage while it's off.
-wes On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Eric House <eeho...@eehouse.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug