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by filleokus 2405 days ago
I have such high hopes for remote development, I want this in all my editors/environment.

Semi-OT but: How are spinup times for different VM/host options? Would it be feasible to have a beefy dedicated machine with something on it that spins up a VM/container when I SSH to it, with all my stuff on it?

Would it be feasible to build something like that with any of the major cloud hosting providers? One always-on server accepting the SSH connection and forwarding it to a fresh VM or something?

It seems wasteful to resources allocated 24/7 when they will probably only be used 8/5.
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whalesalad 2405 days ago
Remember that the VM is running on a hypervisor that is on 24x7 regardless of whether there is a virtual machine there.

The beauty of a VM is that it can get migrated around, so those hypervisor hosts can get turned off when load is not there. This is something that is likely happening already.

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