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  Egor3f
  $36/mo for 2/4/50 VPS without public IP... Ok, I get the idea that the service is for non-regular use, but I think even $0.005 per hour ($3.6/mo) of suspended state is too expensive. The same config in Hetzner is just $4.09/mo for 24/7 working VPS with public IPv4 address
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  krick
  As others pointed out, this isn't a very strong offer, but I'm wondering, if it would be competitive (price/performance wise), does anyone have a use-case for this? I mean, I can name quite a few if it would offer me some hardware that my laptop I'm using to access it just doesn't have, like some A100-level GPUs and stuff, then it would be fantastic: login, do your job, forget about it until the next time you need it. But for anything else it feels like I'd just prefer something more… traditional? Like, DigitalOcean droplet, AWS instance, Linode VPS, you get the idea. At least a managed Docker container. Even if it's technically more expensive and less performant, we are talking like $5/mo, and you can pretty much always easily scale-up or buy additional storage volume, all these things. And it's all yours, for pretty much all practical intents and purposes.Does anyone have a legit use-case when it would be actually nicer to use this on-demand type of service? (Once more, unless we are talking some serious on-demand hardware.)
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  zackify
  There's been so many of these lately.I really need to share a blog post on doing this exact thing with a VPS, 2 commands to install and setup lxd.And then client side bash function to just make and connect via tmux and delete when you're done.Self hosting these services is too easy to do and you can have more control of your data and better specs.
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  Imustaskforhelp
  This is fascinating idea. I created an idea like this on top of firecracker and custom golang ssh client to build something like this for my own personal use case (the abstraction part of pricing and how to connect it seemed the more difficult part for me atleast)What stack does this use underneath?Good luck with launch, this idea is similar to railway in terms of pricing model. I discussed about it a few comments back and I think its an interesting idea and we are seeing alternatives within such pricing modelAlso are you using some cloud provider itself or building it yourself, I'd be interested in so many details to discoverHave a nice day and looking forward to ya response! Good luck with your project!
• qudat
  This is a very cool idea and I like the simplicity of the business model! SSH has a ton of great features and its ergonomics are excellent for terminal enthusiasts. Most of us want to ssh into our cloud compute anyway. As a founder of an ssh platform (https://pico.sh) I just wanted to say welcome and good luck!Also If you ever want to chat about ssh feel free to reach out!
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  Liftyee
  This looks quite similar to exe.dev which was on here a while ago - anyone know how it compares?
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  bks
  What a brilliant billing and account interaction interface. I legitimately wanted to build something like this for a transactional SMS provider where it would all be provisioned, managed, configured on the CLI. Do you have any tips on how you built this out so elegantly?
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  gvldev
  I've been trying to come up with a hypothetical use case for this. I can't use this as a server without keeping an active session right? I wonder if you could get around this by sshing into itself from inside the primary session. Is that an edge case you've considered?
• theykk
  I made something similar last week using rust. It uses docker container with bunch of tool pre loaded. if anyone interested source code https://github.com/TheYkk/agentman
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  zinodaur
  Love this idea! Started building a version of it a while ago, but gave up because my resume time was too slowMy job has their own DCs, but inexplicably hosts devboxes in EC2 - an autosuspend feature for cost savings sounds awesome.Feature request: let me give you a Dropbox folder to persist/load my suspended vms from/to, that way i dont get charged for storage when not using it, and i can walk away whenever i want
• SuperNinKenDo
  Cool idea if you have a more specific niche requirement than it would initially appear, but genuinely nice to know this is available if such a use-case happens to cross my path.
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  vagab0nd
  I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.
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  WhyNotHugo
  Cool idea, but where's the "sign up" button?Trying to use any of the commands in the home page, I just see "hugo@shellbox.dev: Permission denied (publickey).". Clearly I have to register first, but there's no clue as to how.
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  yjftsjthsd-h
  > Note: The -O flag is required for OpenSSH 9.0+ to use legacy SCP protocol.Why isn't SFTP supported?
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  littlecranky67
  Not sure about the security sandbox, but given that paddle.com (your payment provider) takes 5% cut you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments. QR code generation for lightning invoice is instantaneous just as payment, and will cost less than 0.1% fee (payer pays fee anyway). But the security sandbox should be solid, else it will be used for illegal stuff.
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  mnsc
  Is it non-American all the way down?
• orliesaurus
  is there a typo in the title? disconnected takes 2 n (sorry for the nitpick)
• gildenFish
  Looks cool. You probably need a fyi or faq indicating that how the account system works.
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  gigatexal
  ALS no mention of GB’s of bandwidth provided.
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  solumunus
  But why? Genuinely want to know what one might use this for. I can imagine it would be cool for a remote dev environment but the selling point would have to be that it’s far cheaper than the alternative.
• andrewmcwatters
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