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Was going to try their Free account, until I signed up and the discovered the big black "Free" had a tiny light grey "+ Machine Utilization Charges" beneath it. Everything is "Free + Charges".
I'm waiting for my honest business practices to pay off. No cookies, no ads, donations only. It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
This looks like a consumer targeted product. If so, they should use a "per month" pricing instead of the per hour pricing which only caters to nerds who will go through the trouble to calculate. I hope it's actually an affordable option overall compared to any other options out there.
1) I go on Github and configure a service
2) I make a wallet that people can donate to
3) I start up a virtual machine, aimed at the Github, using the wallet to pay for the time on the machine. The virtual machine host guarantees that the code at that Github is what's really running.
I can imagine lots of other things I want, too, but this is the bare minimum. I think it'd be really useful in a lot of scenarios.
Not a heavy user, but I've been using Paperspace a few times for gaming. They make it really easy. They have a "template" you spawn a new instance from, or use a blank windows install. Their template is handy since it has Steam and Parsec already installed. What they seem to be doing here is saying you don't need Parsec and can just use their browser implementation instead. Sounds great!
Was going to try their Free account, until I signed up and the discovered the big black "Free" had a tiny light grey "+ Machine Utilization Charges" beneath it. Everything is "Free + Charges".
I don't understand your problem, the Paperspace account is free. You have to pay for the machine you use.
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I'm waiting for my honest business practices to pay off. No cookies, no ads, donations only. It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
There’s nothing dishonest about just straight up charging, as long as you’re honest about what you’re charging.
After a while I changed to donations Because the idea was to help people. And my day job pays 6 figs.
Is there something like this that's self-hosted? My ideal scenario is something like this that's $20/month for unlimited usage, with the caveat that you have to have the server in your own house with your own internet, but the service is that it provisions your machine and proxies it for fast speeds everywhere.
If you’re technical enough to need that, you’re technical enough to set it up.