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Is it possible to destroy a server before it's time is up? What if I made a server, but now want to try out a different one without waiting 2 hours.
Is it possible to destroy a server before it's time is up? What if I made a server, but now want to try out a different one without waiting 2 hours.
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This initial release is designed to test two things. 1.) Our abuse processes. The goal in this area is to both be very strict in preventing abuse while trying to do so with as little inconvenience for legitimate users as possible and 2.) Testing the ROI. Cloud servers are really inexpensive for short periods and we will be testing conversion rates to see if the project can be self-sustaining through the added time mo…
At the point someone's wanting something for a month, why wouldn't they go pay $5 to DigitalOcean, vs. $10 to you?
I could definately see this working out as a customer aquistion channel for DO, eith Dply getting a referral fee.
Is this from Diply? It uses the same logo font and everything.
This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
You should consider adding a "shutdown and delete" button to get rid of VMs when your users are done with them.
He wants to make sure that everyone knows he's heard your suggestions and comments and is working on them.
An Expire Now option for free servers should be coming later today!
I'd say a good next step would be to add some more user-data example scripts for common setups.
Awesome job!
I'd find that very useful for demonstrating it to people, which... okay, might not be why you're running this. Nowadays I'm handing out shell accounts to my own server, which is mostly fine, but misses out on some of the functionality.
It could use a 'destroy' button (on the page where it shows "add time", "reboot", "rebuild"). This could save you some money.