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Just tried it out .. very nice, quite usable, and fairly decent, performance-wise. Single CPU, 2.5ghz, decent enough for most Linux desktop tasks. The only is
by fit2rule 11y ago
Just tried it out .. very nice, quite usable, and fairly decent, performance-wise. Single CPU, 2.5ghz, decent enough for most Linux desktop tasks.
The only issue I have is that it booted the instance and needed immediately to do a software update .. that's a bit of a drag, I'd be happier if the base instances were already up to date before they get configured/cloned .. but no big deal, really. ( * -)
I'll use it for some ports and see how things go .. kudos to the icebergs.io team for making it pretty smooth to get a new Linux developer workstation set up easily enough ..
EDIT: (- * ) Actually .. this is a big deal for anyone trying it out - the update occurs and then the machine reboots, and then of course .. you lose your instance on the free-tier account. So if you want to use this for free, don't bother doing an update and definitely don't reboot the instance thinking you'll get back an upgraded machine. Apparently thats only for paid users.
EDIT2: Well, 5 minutes after finishing the software upgrade and accidentally hitting the "Restart" button without thinking, I'm left with a hung instance and seemingly no way to get the machine back to life. In case anyone from icebergs.io needs to know, the instance name is late-firefly-372, and all I did was log in, do the required software update, hit restart .. and wait .. and wait. The instance still seems to be responsive, but just not rebooting - some of the windows I left on the screen prior to the reboot appear to still be reacting to mouse events (the VNC config window checkboxes work), but the DE is dead and gone, and the machine doesn't seem to be letting me do anything .. thought I'd report it in case others run into this issue. Don't do the update and don't reboot! :)
- chrism2671 11y agoYep, founder here. Trying to work out how to reduce the cost of both the free plan & paid plans, in order to give more for less. For performance comparison, they are AWS t2.medium instances.
- agjmills 11y agoI obviously dont know your stack so this might be useless if you're heavily invested in AWS - but you might want to try scaleway, you'll definitely get more bang for your buck in terms of performance
- chrism2671 11y agoI'm actually up for that, if you can suggest an alternative way of doing this (ideally using LXC rather the instances), that would be great. Target is 'always on' instances and reduced cost.
- broodbucket 11y agoCan you share who your target audience is? It looks pretty cool but I'm not sure who'd pay for this.
- chrism2671 11y agoI do 90% of my work on a Chromebook/ChromeOS desktop, but I can't program on it, and yet I don't want to suffer trying to put Linux on it, so basically anyone who doesn't want to install Linux on their computer :)
- bachmeier 11y agoActually, Crouton is easy to install, and you run it from inside a ChromeOS window. I program on mine all the time. Most Chromebooks come with limited RAM and hard drive (mine is 2 GB/16 GB) so I could see using something like this if that's a constraint. Unfortunately the pricing is a bit steep (I see you've addressed that above).
- chrism2671 11y agoOh no! I'll look into it! Thank you for pointing this out. The best bet is to delete the instance and create a new one.
- fit2rule 11y agoI didn't want to delete the instance until you had a chance to check it out - so I left it up. But I've just been informed that its deleted now, so .. hopefully you had a chance to see what was up before it went down. Either way, all I did was log in, do the software update, then hit restart .. nothing major, but thought I should let you know anyway.