[jeffasinger]

Hourly billing is huge for us.

Our service is mostly CPU bound, embarrassingly parallel, and so far, 90% of usage is centered on a time slot that's about 8 hours per week long.

We will save a ton of money by scaling down during the off hours, which means only Amazon, Rackspace, and a few others make any sense at all.

[nthnclrk]

I agree. This was massive for me. Being able to create a Droplet (from an existing backup) within a minute, test out an installation for a day, and have it cost almost nothing is huge.