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by tlarkworthy 1742 days ago
I made a service like this on Observable

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/minecraft-servers-be

it never really took off so I mothballed it, however, I do use it at home for our personal server and it has saved me a ton of money! It makes perfect sense as you can have quite a good spec machine when you are paying by the hour. you just disconnect the disk from the VM and pay for disk storage which is very cheap.

It was based on the following terraform recipe (which I wrote)

https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples/blob/master/g...