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Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by lacunary »

littlestymaar wrote: post #56
saghm wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I don't really see the suspension as something worth paying more for; the only potential "feature" I can imagine is it being significantly cheaper, which seems tough given how cheap a VPS already is.

> which seems tough given how cheap a VPS already is. A suspended machine only costs its disk usage to the hoster. You can have 800 of them on a machine with 4TB SSD. You can't say the same for VPS at all.

it has to cost some amount in reserved capacity too. for every n suspended machines there is some small fraction of a machine's cpu/ram capacity that must be kept in reserve, like in a fractional lending system.

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by [deleted] »

littlestymaar wrote: post #56
saghm wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I don't really see the suspension as something worth paying more for; the only potential "feature" I can imagine is it being significantly cheaper, which seems tough given how cheap a VPS already is.

> which seems tough given how cheap a VPS already is. A suspended machine only costs its disk usage to the hoster. You can have 800 of them on a machine with 4TB SSD. You can't say the same for VPS at all.

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Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by Trufa »

messh wrote: post #30
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #27

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THanks for your response! as well I am interested in which bare metal instances from which provider are you using if I may ask since I had a similar idea (as mentioned before) and I wanted to deploy it on hetzner but I was always worried that hetzner's policy might be too harsh for it even though they are one of the cheapest options out there Which server provider did you end up using? Thanks once again for your in d…

Hetzner auction servers, not cloud

How will you handle for example if someone uses this for crypto stuff that's against TOS is hetzner.

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by singpolyma3 »

krick wrote: post #73
singpolyma3 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"American" to refer to USA exclusively does make sense either way because USA shares the continent with at least two other countries no matter how you slice it.

You probably meant "doesn't make sense".

Correct

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by varenc »

bks wrote: post #64

What a brilliant billing and account interaction interface. I legitimately wanted to build something like this for a transactional SMS provider where it would all be provisioned, managed, configured on the CLI. Do you have any tips on how you built this out so elegantly?

Would love a SMS provider that was simple to use. Have used twilio in the past and every time I come back it, it feels like they've added yet another layer of abstraction to the process.

But I suspect that spam and abuse means that becoming an SMS customer is going to have to be complex. Though just the ability to automate SMS msgs to a few pre-defined and verified numbers would be valuable and negate spam risk.

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by varenc »

ronsor wrote: post #75
krick wrote: post #71

As others pointed out, this isn't a very strong offer, but I'm wondering, if it would be competitive (price/performance wise), does anyone have a use-case for this? I mean, I can name quite a few if it would offer me some hardware that my laptop I'm using to access it just doesn't have, like some A100-level GPUs and stuff, then it would be fantastic: login, do your job, forget about it until the next time you need it…

For these kinds of services, I think the main value would be UX improvements, such as offering an environment preconfigured with a certain set of tools (e.g. nmap, tmux, curl, etc.) and other defaults. SSH in, and don't deal with a web panel. They may also be valuable in a learning environment where you don't want student servers running 24/7. Other than those points, offering access to more powerful hardware is prob…

What you've described sounds a bit like the very new https://exe.dev service! Which I discovered on HN just weeks ago.

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by wredcoll »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #51
ekropotin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frankly, the model with the single America continent doesn’t make any sense, because south and north Americas are so different in both geographical and cultural/historical sense.

Continents are about geology not culture

They really aren't, there's no objective way to divide the world into exactly 7 continents (or 6) using geology.

Re: Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

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Post by wolvoleo »

Egor3f wrote: post #4

$36/mo for 2/4/50 VPS without public IP... Ok, I get the idea that the service is for non-regular use, but I think even $0.005 per hour ($3.6/mo) of suspended state is too expensive. The same config in Hetzner is just $4.09/mo for 24/7 working VPS with public IPv4 address

Also many other services that are way cheaper are also charged per hour.
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