I am also on Linode. But I have friends on AWS. Sure, the AWS mainline dashboard is confusing, however everyone I know use the Lightsail series of VPS nodes. They apparently are far easier to provision and understand.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:36 PM wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > what has your experience with AWS been? for me, the initial setup is rather > confusing, but after that I just ssh in like normal. and stopping/starting > an instance is fairly painless, and they only charge you for storage while > it's off. > > -wes > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Eric House <eeho...@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, > > > > --Eric > > -- > > My g-bike can trounce your e-bike! > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
