I have a project where users only will access during business hours, between 7AM and 5PM. I was thinking that it might be useful for these users to have a spin down feature enabled for paid web services (or even databases) so they can save some money. Like, not all applications need to be available the entire day. So, when the workday is over and there’s no traffic, services can be spun down, charges are only applied when the machines are actually active and these users might save some money while the app is not being used during the night
Is there a way to achieve this that I missed reading the docs?
Hey there,
We don’t have this as part of a native feature but you could leverage our API to achieve this - Introduction - you’d have to suspend the service when you don’t need it and then resume it when you do so requests to it during these times wouldn’t actually wake the service up.
But I want to confirm this, just in case. I found this in the pricing page:
We charge for your workspace plan and your total compute usage at the end of the month. Plan costs depend on your workspace type and the number of team members in the workspace. Compute usage is billed and prorated by the second. If you create a service and delete it after a day, you pay for just a day
Does this mean that, by suspending the service during the night and weekends, these users could actually save money? It seems that way but I want to confirm before actually creating the implementation to achieve this