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Vultr
Don't think that's a thing. It's binary. You can however pay for snapshots+floating IP (fixed monthly charge) and be able to accomplish what I believe you're trying to accomplish. You have to pay for any sort of persistence (IP address, snapshot, backup, etc..)
With most non-low-end cloud providers, you’re billed separately for compute and storage, so completely removing the compute while keeping the whole boot drive should be possible, even without a snapshot.
That's pretty much how AWS works. You only pay for the EC2 cost whilst it's running, and you pay for storage at S3 prices when it's not.
However, I can't overemphasize how much you should NOT use AWS for compute. It's way overpriced and performance is way down their list of priorities, with artificial limits all over the place.
I'd even be interested in this - which providers offer this??
In the past I bought a floating IP+snapshot, got my barebones environment set up/configured, made a snapshot and then powered down my server. Any time I needed to test something, fired up a new server, attached the floating IP and then restored the snapshot - back up and running like it was never off. Think the cost was $3/mo+hourly CPU
hetzner
I’m not too sure, but I suspect AWS, GCP, Azure, maybe Scaleway.
It likely won’t be cheaper though.
Gotcha!
I figured OP would have already vetted all of the big names and was coming here for a cheaper alternative. My techy neighbor was all about Azure and had no clue about Vultr. Got his monthly bill down from something ridiculous like $228 to <$50/mo and it outperforms Azure by every metric possible.
Vultr, Katapult, Upcloud, Hetzner to name a few.
As for not being billed whilst the VM is off, I'm not aware of any provider that do this.
TensorDock / @lentro ?
You can also make your own pre-install script for install compiler + extract cache and post-compile to backup cache or workdir. Then push it somewhere with cheap storage price.
Can also make docker container packed everything on your local machine and push to remote server for compile.
This is what i did back when i developing and cutting cost to save my poor wallet.
https://vast.ai, similar to Tensordock, is like Uber for computing. It offers everything from personal computers (potentially unsafe) to certified datacenters.
Billing is per second, with two pricing tiers:
When your instance is not running, you only pay the hourly disk price. Vast.ai provides a Docker container, and you access it via SSH using a shared IP and a custom port.
Example Pricing (EPYC 7Y83 256 vCPU, 256GB RAM, 16GB disk):
What's your budget?
Look at @mustafamw3 VDS options with dedicated vCores
— not hourly, but better value
Other options
All these providers are premium
You can try Caasify cloud marketplace.
https://caasify.com/vpspricing