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Digital Ocean, iwStack?
Digital ocean & iwStack/AWS will charge you for the hour, Per minute doesn't sound possible though.
Don't know of any pay-per-minute. With most by-the-hour providers, you'd only pay like $0.01 on a small instance. Do you need like crazy specs for 15 mins to process video or something like that?
Otherwise I'd just grab some credits at a few different hourly providers. DO, iwstack, Vultr, Runabove, etc.
Google Compute uses minute-level charges, with minimum of 10 minutes. iwStack IIRC does same thing with minimum of
3010 minutes.Edit: @Maounique clarified below, iwStack also has 10 minute minimum and charges per-minute after that.
Try CloudSigma.
Thanks everyone. I'm going to give Cloudsigma a go tonight.
Good to know there are per min VPS options. Just curious though. What do you run for 15 mins and then not need again?
Super high performance elastic computing, for example.
If you don't need high bandwidth, why not just use Amazon AWS free tier?
IWStack charges per minute, but at least 10 minutes in one go. However, OP uses it for 15 minutes at a time, so would work.
a DDOS against a rival team Teamspeak server during a head to head match
I use similar setups - control node awakens, syncs backups, updates blacklists in filters etc etc etc and then shuts down.
CloudSigma - one of best choices for that, in my experience. AWS EC2 works fine as well. Both have well-dveloped API to control VMs.
Mostly data processing.
If he needs CPU, the AWS free tier is not the place to be. They nerf CPU pretty aggressively.