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Just a hair under $5 a month IF you run it continuously. hyperdeficit was talking about using VMs for teaching, where VMs would presumably be spun up and down

Just a hair under $5 a month IF you run it continuously. hyperdeficit was talking about using VMs for teaching, where VMs would presumably be spun up and down as needed.

e12e 10y ago
Which you can also do at Digital Ocean (note: you have to take a snapshot, and destroy the droplet in order to suspend billing). While it might be pennies (or less!) - I'm still wary of how Amazon bills everything separately - your data at rest, your CPU, your bandwidth. I don't know if Digital Ocean would be any cheaper - but it sure strikes me as being a lot easier to predict. Maybe I'm just unreasonably afraid of what I perceive as "billing complexity" at Amazon. Now I'm actually tempted to set up a small classroom using skolelinux/DebianEdu[1] on Digital Ocean built around a central droplet running the servers - and seeing how easy it is to suspend every thing to a dormant state and revive it... mostly just to play with the ldap-stuff. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Installation https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Insta...