[PLUG] Recommend a cheap-when-stopped VM provider?

[Bill Barry]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 2:22 PM Eric House <eehouse at 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