[ineedasername]

The gaming community also used Paperspace sometimes for PC game streaming. It allowed users to install Steam or other clients to tap into existing libraries.

I found about it in the reddit /r/cloudygamer sub and used it temporarily on vacation to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey and it worked pretty well.

[kawsper]

I used Paperspace to do daily quests in Age of Empires 2 on a holiday once, it worked great for that.

[kossTKR]

True, but i would say shadow.tech is way better valuable for money.

[ineedasername]

At the time I used Paperspace shadow was in some kind of limbo, not accepting new customers-- I'm not sure if pre-existing ones were still able to use the service.

Also Paperspace would let you choose how much GPU you needed, which seemed like a nice way to conserve costs if you were playing low-overhead games, some indies or older games, though I never used it as such.

[TheFreim]

Does anyone know of a service like this that only charges based on storage + how much you use it? I would like to use something like this to run some windows software so I don't need a local VM or dual booting but paying monthly for something I would only use a few hours a month would not work for me.

[rat9988]

Paperspace?

[TheFreim]

I can't use Paperspace due to them blocking my phone number (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36617551), plus I am interested in alternatives for the sake of comparing options.

[leach]

I feel like shadow always had way more latency, and paper space was much more consistent