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Re:Replacing a Development VPS with Linux on OSX by maratd on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:35AM (#2969618)
> Not everybody needs to run development server 24/7.

Great. Shut down the instance. You pay nothing when it's off.

> Plus, the title and the content of this post is ...

I know what the article says. I'm telling you it's not a good idea, for the reasons listed above.

I do run a few local images here and there, but that's only for situations where I don't have access to the internet.

Re:Replacing a Development VPS with Linux on OSX by dchest on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:39AM (#2969633)
> Great. Shut down the instance. You pay nothing when it's off.

Not true for Rackspace.

Re:Replacing a Development VPS with Linux on OSX by maratd on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @12:26PM (#2970135)
> Not true for Rackspace.

You're right. From what I hear, it may become a feature once they convert everything to openstack.