[ale] Difficulty of philosophy changes

[Ben Coleman]

On 11/15/2014 08:33, Leam Hall wrote:
> Any good recommendations for small instance cloud providers? I know AWS
> and Rackspace but have not paid attention to others yet. My goal is to
> spin up servers, learn Puppet and stuff, and spin them down. Only paying
> for uptime. RAM and disk needs are pretty minimal. However, even an AWS
> micro instance is ~$60/month if you forget that you have it and forget
> that it's on...

Have you looked at Digital Ocean?  A droplet that exists, but is turned
off will still cost you, but leaving a 512MB droplet existing the whole
month only costs $5.

Ben
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