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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by temp8964 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:36AM (#27906041)
Is their offer better than a $40 / month VPS?
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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by breakfastduck on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:54PM (#27912700)
Not comparable because its not a VPS. I.E its a hourly billed system you can run GUI apps on. It is not a web server.

Also its not £ /month. It's hourly. To run 24 hours a day the cost would be 3x more.

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by zamadatix on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:50AM (#27920297)
It is a VPS though, just one with a preconfigured remote web access portal. It's also perfectly possible to compare the services even though one is price /h and the other /m - it'd be equivilant to rent an equivalently specced windows VPS as what they list for 1 month as it would be to use this for ~25 hours in 1 month at first glance. Less and it'd be cheaper to use this, more and it'd be (far) cheaper to use a standard VPS. There are probably even better VPS rates, that's just based on the first one I checked.

The sell of this is the preconfigured web access portal, for which you pay a hefty premium.

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Re:Show HN: Neverinstall – A platform to bring desktop appli... by breakfastduck on Friday July 23, 2021 @08:45PM (#27937426)
It's a VPS with a config OS and RDP.

To emphasise, a £40 month VPS is so astronomically better value if you can config it.

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