Comment by conradfr
7 months ago
It costs 10 cents an hour though.
@javcasas for sure it's not practical if you want to develop with it, I was more thinking of testing on preprod/prod.
But maybe ngrok can be sufficient to test your local dev from the VM?
Plus moving stuff into the VM, opening a vnc connection, testing that it doesn't show properly, uploading a tweak to see if it improves, testing again, and so on.
10 cents is the smallest of the associated expenses. You are ignoring all the other expenses.
You’ll only get rates like that if you’re reserving at least a month’s usage.
For small amounts of usage, the cheapest I’ve ever seen is $1 per hour, with a minimum spend past $30, with various further strings attached. And most are much more than that.
Apple has a 24h minimum mandate so I guess I stand corrected.
But it's not $1 per hour.
https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/apple-silicon/
OK, that does look like it actually is only €2.64 per day. Having looked carefully a few years ago and briefly skimmed now, the absolute cheapest other provider I’ve seen in small quantities was over 8× that price.