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Re:Ask HN: Pay-per-Minute Game Servers by mimixco on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:00AM (#25777920)
Most likely you'll be charged by your hosting provider for instances that exist even if they aren't running, which how they would preserve your content and setup in between. That would make it uneconomical to charge your customer only for a few hours at a time. Also, if you take the money you will be the one providing support -- and there will be support issues because there always are.
Re:Ask HN: Pay-per-Minute Game Servers by koellewe on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:05AM (#25791041)
Good point. Probably best then if we only store the actual game config (a bunch of text files) and completely purge the instance when the user ends the session. Then when booting again we start afresh and copy in the config only.