On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 2:22 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, >
I have used Digital Ocean, Linode, Google Cloud and AWS, none of them charge when your VM is not running, but as far as I know all of them charge to store the image. Bill Barry _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug