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

Tomas Kuchta tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 06:28:09 UTC 2021


You delete the linode after you save/backup its disk image.

When you need it - you create/restore the vm from the stored image/backup.

That is the way to go about it.

Another alternative is to use powerful vm instance when needed, change it
to the cheapest one when not in use.

Tomas

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, 19:58 Mark Allyn <markallyn456 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you define 'not running'? With linode, if you power down the node
> but not delete it, it is still be charged.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 1:54 PM Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
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