Once you have an account with Linode, spinning up another node is quick and painless, and with way more options.
Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes?
I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.
Price information is available on the second page of the "Get More Time" flow, after entering your email (or not) and hitting "Continue". I'll try to make that more obvious. Thanks for the feedback.
can you have a Linode account w/o having an active server?
This is suppose to offer a small testing environment, fast and easy.
and I guess is cheaper that Linode to just keep it a little bit longer online...
You can have a Linode account without any active VPSes on your account. If you want to spin up a Linode for a day, you get charged a prorated amount for the day(s) that it is active on your account. Pretty reasonable IMO.
Just note that you need to have an active Linode on your account in order for any DNS records hosted with Linode to be served.
Plus they're up front with their billing - I need to send in a question and wait for a email response on how much it will cost to keep it longer then 30 minutes?
I'll pass. His concept is to SAVE TIME, yet with all the missing details, it will end up costing more time (and probably money) then it's worth.