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sprites have weird lately, i think fly.io is having trouble with capacity in various locations.

is the experience similar? can i just get console to one machine, work for a bit, logout. come back later, continue?

how does i cost work if i log into a machine and do nothing on it? just hold the connection.

[benswerd]

This will just work on us.

We do auto suspend depending on your configured timeout. We'll pause your VM and when you come back the processes will be in the exact same state as when you left.

[tomComb]

But your pricing page suggests that that is not available without a subscription: in the on-demand pricing section "persistent Snapshots" and "Persistent VM's" have an 'x'.

[benswerd]

We do not allow long term persistence for the free tier.

This is purely a defense mechanism, I don't want to guarantee storing the data of an entire VM forever for non paying users. We have persistence options for them like Sticky persistence but it doesn't come with the reliability of long term persistence storage.

[tomComb]

But it wouldn’t be non paying customers. That was from the on demand section. I just want to pay for what I use without getting into a subscription.

[benswerd]

Ah I see. This is very interesting but not what we're focused on right now. I will keep this in mind for future prioritization.