Actually, dinCloud have an "all-you-can-eat" flat rate plan. How this will pan out in the future is unknown, but at the minute they simply charge a flat rate fee with no extra charges based around bandwidth, etc.
However, for the spec of workstation I wanted, it was much too expensive compared to a home lab with TeamViewer on. Maybe it will change in the future, but right now cloud-based stuff isn't invading small home labs anytime soon :-) On 3 April 2014 11:50, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Lots of VPS or dedicated server provides will give you a VM or dedicated > server for $x month, if you're just after certainty in billing. > > > > However I'm guessing that you want a flat price, but you want that flat > price to be based on only want you want to use, and you don't want to > commit to any particular minimum. I'm not really aware of any rental market > that works like that. You commit to a minimum, and the provider then > dedicates something to you. Or you pay "as you go" and get a cheaper price. > > > > Cheers > Ken > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James Rankin > *Sent:* Thursday, 3 April 2014 9:41 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns > > > > Good point. It does suck....I find myself regularly reinstalling VMs in my > home lab because the activation doesn't work any more. It's annoying but > the only way I can get a lot of my testing done. If only AWS or Azure > weren't so terrible to estimate a price for. If a cloud provider came up > with a flat rate monthly fee for x amount of servers, I'd be over the moon. > As it is, the billing models for per-minute usage and per-byte bandwidth > and per-megabyte of RAM, etc., really make it no good to those of us just > doing testing. > > > > On 3 April 2014 11:30, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yet, MSDN remains. However it's $5K+ to buy an anonymous subscription. > > > > The fact that they're keeping Action Pack, Bizspark, the Academic options > etc. seems to indicate that they're happy to keep providing cheap/free > software to people - it's just that you need to jump through some hoops to > get it (aka you can't easily get 1000 copies to abuse) > > > > Personally, I think it sucks (as it impacts me as much as it does you now > that I don't work for a major partner nor am I an MVP anymore), but I can > see why they do it. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > > -- *James Rankin* --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
