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Hourly charges
Hi,
I recently discovered the thread here about motherboard1.com and how they advertise hourly pricing. Can I really purchase a virtual server for 1 hour and pay $0.02?
This would be really useful for me as I have the need for Windows instances a few hours a month.
Thanks
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Yes, this means hourly pricing. Never used motherboard1.com though.
Yes, although you normally need to deposit like $5 first.
I see, sorry for the mistake. Just copied it from above
Sorry for the mistake! Yeh, I had heard not to use them so I will avoid.
So next question, which company requires the lowest deposit? I've been looking at Linode and DO but am open to suggestions.
Linode and DO don't do Windows. Vultr does.
I see, so what is minimal deposit there? Can I literally despot $5, run an instance for 3 hours a month and literally be charged $0.09 on the smallest tariff?
@1e10 I think Vultr allow deposits as low as $5 so yes, and your first deposit is doubled. Yes it'll cost you the hourly rate as long as you destroy (delete) the VM when you're done with it, not power it off.
Thanks, I'll give them a go.
Do they have any sort of affiliate scheme that someone may want me to use?
Maybe, not me though. I like Digital Ocean myself as I am a *nix guy Hope it works for you.
No one mentioned iwstack, they are pretty cool too, even though the web UI is complete shit.
Windows 2008 or 2012 licensed template €0.0125 €9.00
You can also probably use your own license.
Me too, just this one piece of software I run that isn't available for nix yet! Though I haven't tried it in Wine yet.
Ah yes, do Vultr include licenses?
@perennate
No one mentioned iwstack because they want a 30 euro minimum deposit :-) i doubt OP will want to put $40 down just to use a windows vm for 3 hours
Yes, it is extra hourly fee I think.
Edit: $0.034 for Windows with 1024 MB RAM
AWS has always had hourly Windows instances, however the initial setup time for Windows can be quite long, almost half an hour in my experience.
Microsoft Azure can do this too. All Windows licenses available to choose from and initial installs used to take me about 3 or 4 minutes on Azure.
LOL... mothershit1 wants a min of $50USD to open my account...
It only does this to people it doesn't like.
What is it with these new space-themed cloud providers that make it difficult to even become a customer.
I have been trying to get an account with https://www.runabove.com/ to try out their service, with out any luck...I have signed up, and even tweeted them..
I guess they don't like money? Maybe they only want space-bucks?
I don't mind a good space theme, that run above one is pretty underwhelming in all aspects though.
RunAbove is still in beta. You need to be a devops or go to a OVH World Tour to get a voucher for now. But I try the service and it's amazing!