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Hi, That is a good point actually. The suspended price has to be significantly lower than the alternative. I'll revise it. Still, there is the advantage of simplicity not having to deal with the web console etc. Some people may enjoy this
The interesting part here is that the box is stateful, unlike a Lambda. You return literally to the point where you left off.
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Sort of, but maybe not quite? When you spin up an EC2 spot instance, it's a fresh instance with whatever AMI you load into it, and it's a fresh boot at that time. (You can save persistent data to an EBS volume that you create once up front and then attach to each new instance, of course.) With this service, it seems like the VM underpinning your session is suspended (like as if you were to suspend-to-RAM or hibernate…
Right you would need it to be on-demand to hibernate like that but even then a medium will beat these prices I believe.
Can then spawn a new instance from the snapshot and it should unhibernate
Whether the OS will like that... That's another point. As there will be things that change like smbios etc
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Pretty sure shellbox.dev has been around for at least 2-3 years though - EDIT nm they have a show HN from two days ago. I must be thinking of a similarly named/sounding service
Maybe you mean keypub.sh? That is another project of mine with similar graphic design.
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Pretty sure shellbox.dev has been around for at least 2-3 years though - EDIT nm they have a show HN from two days ago. I must be thinking of a similarly named/sounding service
Maybe you mean keypub.sh? That is another project of mine with similar graphic design.
I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.
This looks quite similar to exe.dev which was on here a while ago - anyone know how it compares?
I think exe.dev is subscription. In Shellbox.dev you have funds and pay very little when not connected
I've been trying to come up with a hypothetical use case for this. I can't use this as a server without keeping an active session right? I wonder if you could get around this by sshing into itself from inside the primary session. Is that an edge case you've considered?
For this use case, why wouldn't you just instead run a VPS on AWS or some cheaper platform?