Is there any pay as you vps with suspend option?

Tal

Is here any providers with per hour billing and with option to suspend vps to stop billing and pay only for space used for keeping hibernated machine? Thanks!

yoursunny

@lentro is your boy.
When you suspend, you only pay for storage, and they use the CPU and GPU for mining.
https://console.tensordock.com/deploy

farsighter

@Tal said:
Is here any providers with per hour billing and with option to suspend vps to stop billing and pay only for space used for keeping hibernated machine? Thanks!

For what app do you want to hibernate a VPS?

sanvit

https://www.lunanode.com/guides/shelve

lentro

@yoursunny said: @lentro is your boy.

Thanks for the mention!

@Tal -- we have both hourly CPU and GPU servers. Our pricing isn't LET-level but is reasonable. You'll find us cheaper than companies like Linode.

You'll only be billed for storage when the server is off. That can be as low as $0.0012/hour ($0.876 per month) for a 20 GB hard drive virtual machine that is off for the entire month.

@farsighter said: hibernate a VPS

Streaming, transcoding, machine learning, etc. Unless you're running a website or logging system, you probably don't need to have something always be running.

Perhaps, you want to download pushup videos from @yoursunny every day. Then, you can have a virtual machine spin up for 5 minutes each day to check if there are new uploads

farsighter

@lentro said:

Streaming, transcoding, machine learning, etc. Unless you're running a website or logging system, you probably don't need to have something always be running.

I thought by hibernation he meant checkpointing, not just a snapshot.

jmgcaguicla

@farsighter said:

I thought by hibernation he meant checkpointing, not just a snapshot.

You're thinking about this too much, this is simply the ability to temporarily turn off the VM while keeping the disk/IP intact so you can instantly start it at a later time and pay only for the storage instead of the entire cost ala the big boy clouds.

farsighter

@jmgcaguicla said:

You're thinking about this too much, this is simply the ability to temporarily turn off the VM while keeping the disk/IP intact.

I did that many times lol.

Anyway it would actually be cool if we could checkpoint a VPS. Unfortunately the tools available nowadays are often not reliable. I tried that with LXC criu but it rarely worked with my setup.

risharde

Can't vouch for them but scaleway has hourly rates and so I guess this meets your requirements?

corbpie

Just use a normal pay to go like Vultr and use snapshots + reserve IP

sanvit

@lentro said: Then, you can have a virtual machine spin up for 5 minutes each day to check if there are new uploads

Is there a cronjob-style boot-up option available, or will this have to be done manually? Sounds like it could be useful in some cases

lentro

@sanvit said:

@lentro said: Then, you can have a virtual machine spin up for 5 minutes each day to check if there are new uploads

Is there a cronjob-style boot-up option available, or will this have to be done manually? Sounds like it could be useful in some cases

Yeah, come to think of it, that’d be a good feature to add…

ITivan80

Not that i know of most providers just do monthly/yearly subscriptions.

bdl

+1 lunanode

alento

+2 lunanode